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A VIEW OF THE OLD STATE-HOUSE, 






SURVEY 



OF 

BOSTON AND ITS VICINITY 5 

SHEWING THE DISTANCE FROM THE 

OLD STATE HOUSE, AT THE HEAD OF 
STATE STREET, 

TO ALL THE 

TOWNS AND VILLAGES 

NOT EXCEEDING FIFTEEN MILES THEREFROM ; ALSO 

THE INTERMEDIATE DISTANCE FROM ONE 

PLACE TO ANOTHER, TOGETHER 

WITH A SHORT 

TOPOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF THE COUNTRY. 

THE WHOLE TAKEN FROM ACTUAL SURYEY 

AND LINEAL MEASURE IN THE YEARS 

1818, 1819, AND 1830. 



BY JOHN G. HALES, 

Surveyor and Topographer. 



BOSTON: 

PRINTED BY EZRA LINC 

1821. 




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DISTRICT OP MASSACHUSETTS, TO WIT : 

District Clerk** Office. 

BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the twenty seventh day of July, A. D. 1821, 
in the forty sixth year of the Independence of the United States of America, 
John G. Maies of the said District, has deposited in this office the title of a book, 
the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to -wit : 

A Survey of Boston and its Vicinity ; shewing the Distance from the Old State 
House, at the Head of State Street, to all the Towns and Villages not exceeding 
Fifteen Miles therefrom; also the Intermediate Distance from one Place to 
another, together with a short Topographical Sketch of the Country. The whole 
taken from actual Survey, and Lineal Measure in the Years 1818, 1819 and 1820. 
By John G. Hales, Surveyor and Topographer. 

In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, " An 
act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts and 
books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein 
mentioned :" and also to an act entitled, " An act supplementary to an act, enti- 
tled, An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, 
charts and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times 
therein mentioned ; and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, 
engraving and etching historical, and other prints." 

JOHN W. DAVIS, 
Clerk of the District of Massachusetts. 



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PREFACE. 



THE Publisher of this work having just 
completed a Map of the environs of Boston for 
fifteen miles round ; and in the course of his 
Surveys hath frequently observed the decep- 
tions used to decoy travellers by means of erro- 
neous statements as to distances marked on 
guide boards and stones ; some having calcu- 
lated to the town lines only, others having their 
milefs set at random, without regard to real 
measure, each party or corporation recommend- 
ing as the shortest and best way their favourite 
route, or that perhaps in which their interest is 
most concerned. 

These erroneous guides, together with the 
frequent application to the Author for informa- 
tion respecting the true distance, was an in- 



it Preface. 

ducement for him to publish this pocket guide, 
in which are faithfully shewn from actual lineal 
measure, taken by the Author himself, the true 
and correct distance to each and every town, 
village and noted place, over all the roads with- 
in fifteen miles of Boston, with a short topo- 
graphical sketch of the country through which 
they pass. 

The great public interest excited in that gi- 
gantic undertaking the Mill Dam, just finished 
by the Boston and Roxbury Mill Corporation 
across the Great Bay, from Beacon Street in 
Boston to Sewall's Point in Brookline, and the 
general wish for information on the subject, 
hath further induced the Publisher to add to 
this little work a sketch and description of that 
hitherto unprecedented undertaking, with a 
view of gratifying the public in the principle of 
the plan by which those stupendous powers are 
to be brought into operation. 



SURVEY, &c. 



Lengths of the Principal Streets in Boston. 

i 

Tarda. 

Adams Street from Liberty Square to Milk Street 70 
Allen Street (North) from Chamber Street to 

Charles River 336| 
Allen Street (South) from Chamber St. to Blos- 
som St. 1651 
Ann Street from Market Square to Fish St. 346 
Atkinson Street from Milk St. to Purchase St. 326§ 

Back Street from the junction of North, Middle 

and Mill Pond St. to Prince St. 3581 
Battery March Street from Liberty Square to 

Broad St. 131 

Bedford Street from Newbury to Summer St. 388| 

Beach Street from Orange St. to Front St. 137| 

Beacon Street from Tremont St. to Charles St. S03 J 

*1 



fr Boston, 

Yards. 

Belknap Street from Beacon St. to Cambridge St. 466§ 

Bennet Street (South) 142 

Bennet Street (North) 183 
Berry Street 83£ 

Blossom Street 279§ 

Boylston Street from Orange to Pleasant St. 289§ 

Broad Street from State St. to Purchase St. 424| 
Bulfinch Street from Somerset Place to Bowdoin 

Square 156f 

Brighton Street from North Allen to Leverett St. 286 

Buttolph Street from Cambridge to Myrtle St. 205| 

Carver Street from Boylston to Pleasant St. 377§ 
Cambridge Street from Bowdoin Square to West 

Boston Bridge 740£ 

Chesnut Street from Walnut to Charles St. 337± 

Chamber Street from Cambridge to Poplar St. 304 
Charles Street from West Boston Bridge to the 

Hay Scales 1083 
Charter Street from North to Lynn St. 439 
Common Street from the Stone Chapel to Nas- 
sau St. r89£ 
Congress Street from State St. to Milk St. 196| 
Cornhill from Dock Square to Marlborough St. 2S8§ 
Centre Street (West) from Cambridge to Pinck- 

ney St. 264£ 
Court Street from the Old State House to Bowdoin 

Square 439 

Perne Street 122§ 

Devonshire Street from State St. to Milk St. 215 

Elliot Street from Orange to Pleasant St. 359£ 



Boston. 7 

Vkrdt. 

Elm Street 153^ 

Essex Street from Newbury to South St. 479§ 

Exchange Street from State St. to Dock Square 108§ 

Federal Street 372 

Fish Street 41 6§ 

Fleet Street fffl 
Franklin Street and Place from Marlboro* St. to 

Federal St. 315| 
Friend Street from Hanover to Merrimack Street 172 

Front Street from Rainsford Lane to S. Bridge 1003 

Garden Street from Cambridge St. to Myrtle St. 207 
Green Street from Bowdoin Square to Chamber 

Street 287| 

Grove Street from Cambridge to May St. 185 

Gooeh Street from Green to Merrimack St. I74f 

Hamilton Street 134 

Hanover Street from Court St. to Middle St. 366 

Hancock from Sumner to Cambridge St. 316£ 

Harvard Street 167| 

Hawkins Street 1531 

Hawley Street from Milk to Summer St. 257± 

High Street from Fort Hill to Summer St. 473 

Hollis Street 127£ 

Howard Street (late Soulhack Court) 164 

India Street from Long to India Wharf 329| 

Kingston Street from Summer to Pond St. 96* 

Kilby Street 116* 

Kneeland Street i*H 



8 Boston. 

Yar 

Leverett Street from Green St. to Craigie's 

Bridge 524| 

Lincoln Street 115f 

Lynde Street from Green to Cambridge St. 174. 

Lynn Street from North St. to Charlestown 

Bridge 603£ 

Mason Street from West St. to Sheafe's Lane 196| 

Market Street from Cornhill to Court St. 145| 

Marlborough Street from Cornhill to Summer St. 304 

May Street from South Russell St. to Charles St. 413§ 

Merrimack Street from Union St. to Leverett St. 623 
Merchant's Row from State St. to Codman's 

Wharf 143^ 

Middle Street from Hanover to North St. 404 
Middlecot and Bowdoin Streets from Cambridge 

St. to Beacon St. 402^ 
Milk and Commercial Streets from the Old South 

to India St. 514^ 
Mill Pond Street from Middle St. to Charles- 
town Bridge over the Mill Pond 660 
Myrtle Street from Hancock to West Centre St. 278± 

Nassau Street from Orange St. to Boylston St. 446£ 

Newbury Street from Summer to Orange St. 439| 
North Street from Middle St. to Winuesimet 

Ferry way 296 

Olive Street from Belknap to Charles St. 483 

Oliver Street from Milk St. to Fort Hill 194| 

Orange St. from Newbury to Washington St. 1056 

Park Street from Common to Beacon St. 134^ 



Boston. 9 

Yards. 

Pearl Street from Milk to High St. 242 

Piii«kney St. from Belknap to Charles St. 418 

Pitt Street from Green to Merrimack St. 216£ 

Pleasant Street from Boylston to Orange Street 687 
Poplar Street from Chamber Street to Charles 

River 317 

Portland from Hanover to Merrimack Street 311 

Purchase Street from Broad to Summer St. 672 
Prince Street from Middle St. to Charlestovvn 

Bridge 502% 

Rainsford Lane 10S| 
Russell Street (North) from Cambridge St. to 

Eaton St. ±52 
Russell Street (South) from Cambridge St. to 

Myrtle St. 20S§ 

Salem Street 288^ 

School Street 1841 

Sea Street from Summer St. to Wheeler's Point 592^ 

Ship Street from Fish to North St. 426 

South Street from Summer to Sea St. 178 

Southack Street from Buttolph to George St. 316^ 

Somerset Street from Howard to Beacon St. 260^ 
Somerset Place from Somerset St. to Middlecot 

Street 113£ 

Spring Street from Poplar to Leverett St. 15l£ 

State Street from Cornhill to Long Wharf 317 

Staniford Street from Cambridge to Green St. 153| 
Sumner Street from Beacon St. round the State 

Hosse Yard to Belknap St. 233| 
Summer Street from Marlboro' St. to Bill Vose'a 

Wharf 563 



10 Boston. 

Yards 

Sudbury St. from Court to Portland St. 203; 



Temple Street 201* 

Tremout St. from Howard to School St. 301^ 

Union Street from Market Square to Merrimack 

Street 367J 

Vine Street 154f 

Walnut St. from Beacon to Olive St. 89J 

Warren Street from Elliot to Orange Street 424J 
Washington Street from Orange St. over the 

Neck to Roxbury line. 1974^ 

Water Street from Cornhill to Liberty Square 232§ 

West Street 162 

Winter Street 163 



Boston. 11 

Distances. in Boston, through the principal 
leading Streets. 



From the Old State House through Court and Cam- 
bridge Streets. 

Intermediate Summary 
Yards. Yards. 



To the head of Market Street 145 

To the head of Hauover Street 108 253 

iFo the beginning of Cambridge Street 286 539 

To the bottom of Hancock Street 191 729 

iTo the beginning of Cambridge Bridge 568 1298 

| 
From the Old State House through Court, Green and 

Leverett Streets. 



Intermediate Summary 
Yards. Yards. 



To the beginning of Green Street on 

Bowdoin Square 556 

To the beginning of Leverett Street 244 800 

ro Spring Street, opposite the Alms 

House 401 1201 

l'o the beginning of Craigie's Bridge 124 .1325 

From the Old State House through Union Street, Mar- 
shal's Lane, Back Street and Prince Street. 

Intermediate Summary 
Yards. Yards. 



jTo the beginning of Union Street 235 

ro the junction of Middle and Back Sts. 313 54S 

To the junction of Back and Prince Sts. 411 959 

To thebeginning of Charlestown Bridge 421 1380 



IS 



Boston* 



From the Old State House to Charlestown Bridge through 
Union Street and Mill Pond Street. 132C 



From the Old State House through Ann Street, <$*c. 



Intermediate Summarj 
Yards. Yards. 



To the beginning of Ann Street 336 

To the junction of Fish and Cross Streets 250 586 

To the junction of Ship and Fleet Streets 430 1016 

To the junction of Fish, North and Lynn 

Streets 426 1442 

To Charlestown Bridge 609 2051 



From the Old State House through Marlborough 
Street, Sfc. 



Intermediate 
Yards. 



Summary 
Yards. 



To the end of School Street 

To the head of Milk Street 

To the head of Franklin Street 

To the head of Summer Street 

To West Street 

To Boylston Market 

To the junction of Elliot and Orange St 

To Hollis Street 

To Nassau Street 

To Warren Street 

To Pleasant Street 

To the Green Store 

To the beginning of South Boston Bridge 132— 



167 




67— 


— 234 


133— 


—367 


100— 


—467 


173— 


— 640 


273— 


—913; 


t. 157— 


-10701 


162— 


-12321 


87— 


-1319 


108— 


-1427 


57— 


-1484* 


485— 


-1969 


Ige 132— 


-2101 



Boston. 13 

From the Old State House through School and Beacon 
Streets. 

Intermediate Summary 
Yards. Yards. 

To School Street 167 
To the junction of Beacon and Tremont 

Streets 4 87 354 

To the junction of Park and Beacon Sts. 256« -610 

To Walnut Street 184 794 

To the beginning of the Mill Dam 410 1204 

From the head of the Old State House through State 
Street , Sfc. 

Intermediate Summary 
Yards. Yards. 



To Kilby Street 163£ 

To the head of Long Wharf 153§ 317 

To the bottom of Long Wharf 580 897 

From the Old South Meeting House through Milk 
Street, Sfc. 

Intermediate Summary 
Yards. Yards. 



To Pearl Street 


288 


To Broad Street 


200 488 


To India Street 


90 578 


To the bottom of Central Wharf 


453 1031 



From the Old South Meeting House to the Theatre. 

Intermediate Summary 
Yards, Yards. 



To the bottom of Federal Street 191 

To the Theatre 140 331 

2 



14 Boston, 

From the head of the Old State House to the Theatre. 

Intermediate Summary 
Yards. Yards. 



To Congress Street 83 

To Milk Street 202 2S5 

To the Theatre 170 455 

From the head of Hanover Street through Hanover and 
Middle Streets. 





Intermediate Summary 




Yards. Yards. 


To Elm Street 


147 


To Union Street 


160 307 


To Cross Street 


1651 4,721 


To Prince Street 


273§ 746 


To Fleet Street 


66 812 


To Charter Street 


150- 962 


To the junction of Fish, North and 


Lynn 


Streets 


170 1132 


From the head of Hanover Street to the Green Store 


through Common Street. 




Intermediate Summary 




Yards. Yards. 



To the junction of School and Tre- 

mont Streets 300 

To the beginning of the Mall 232 532 

To the bottom of the Mall 56l| — 1093| 

To the crossing of Elliot and Nassau 

Streets 156 1249f 

To the junction of Nassau and Orange 

Streets -2961—1546 

To the Green Store 899 2445 



Boston. 16 

From the head of Hanover Street to the Theatre through 
School Street. 





Intermediate Summary 
Yards. Yards. 


To the head of School Street 


300 


To the head of Milk Street 


254 -554! 


To Federal Street 


191 745 


To the Theatre 


140 — —885 



From the head of Hanover Street to the Theatre 
through Congress Street. 



Vo the Old State House 
To Congress Street 
To the Theatre 



Intermediate 


Surarnary 


Yards. 


Yards. 


253 




83- 


336 


372- 


70S 



Yards. 

Length of the Great Mall through its Centre 561| 

The Short Mall 145f 

The Upper Mall 521| 



16 



Boston. 



d Table shewing the rate per 
by the time taken to pass thr 
the fence on Park Street 
Street. 



hour a person is moving 
ough the long Mall from 
to the fence on Boylston 



Time passing thro' 
the Mall. 


Rate per Hour. 


Time passing thro' 
the Mall. 


Rate per Hour. 


Minutes. 


Seconds. 


Miles. 


Minutes 


. Seconds. 


Miles. 


19 


8.86 


1 


3 


49.77 


5 


15 


19.09 


If 


3 


28.88 


H 


12 


45.91 


H 


3 


11.48 


6 


10 


56.49 


■*4 


2 


56.74 


H 


9 


34.43 


2 


2 


44.12 


7 


7 


39.54 


2i 


2 


33.18 


'a 


6 


22.95 


3 


2 


23.61 


8 


5 


28.24 


H 


2 


15.16 


H 


4 


47,21 


4 


2 


7.65 


9 


4 


15.3 


H 


1 


54.85 


10 



Circuit round the Common, on the line of fence includ- 
ing the Burying Ground. 

Yards. 

From the upper corner of the Mall against Park 
Street to the lower corner against Boylston 

Street 559 

On Boylston Street to the Hay Scales 233 

On Charles Street 460 

On Beacon Street 537 

On Park Street 143 

1932 



Circuit round the Common, passing through the middle 
of the Streets adjoining thereto, 1973 Yards, or 1 mile, 
38 Rods and 4 Yards. 



Boston. 17 

Lengths of the Bridges or Avenues leading from Bos- 
ton. 

Yards, 

The Mill Dam from Brookline across the Great 

Bay 5640 

South Boston Bridge 517 

West Boston or Cambridge Bridge 962| 

Cragie's Bridge 932 
Prison Point Bridge from Cragie's to the State 

Prison 607 

Charlestown Bridge 456£ 
Chelsea Bridge, over Mystic River, from Chelsea 

to Charlestown 1210 
Maiden Bridge over Mystic River, from the end 

of Newburyport Tnrnpike to Charlestown 660 

Circuit round the Town of Boston, passing through the 
marginal streets, beginning at West Boston Bridge. 



Intermediate 
distances. 


Summary. 


•i 

3 

From West Boston Bridge up 


s 

9 
ft 


Rods. 
Miles. 


bo 

J 

u 
a 
fct 


1 


Cambridge, through Blossom, 










North Allen and Brighton 










Streets to Cragie's Bridge 


4 


15—0 





00 


Up Leverett Street to Merrimack 










Street 


1 


34—0 


6 


9 


Through Merrimack Street, over 










the Canal Bridge to Mill 










Pond Street 


2 


13—1 





22 


Through Mill Pond Street to 










Charlestown Bridge 
*2 


2 


28—1 


3 


10 



18 Boston. 



Intermediate Summary, 

distances. 



_. , _ M. F. R. M. F. R. 

Through Lynn, Ship, Fish and 
Ann Streets to Roebuck Pas- 
sage 7 18—2 2 23 

Through Roebuck Passage, Mer- 
chant's Row and State Street to 
India Street 1 20 2 4 8 

Through India Street and Pur- 
chase Street to Summer Street 5 5 — 3 1 13 

Through Sea Street, South 
Street and Essex Street to 
Rainsford Lane 3 28 — 3 5 l 

Through Rainsford Lane and 
Front Street to South Boston 
Bridge 5 4 — 4 2 5 

Through Bridge Street, Orange 
Street, Pleasant Street and 
Charles Street to the Mill 
Dam 1 o i — 5 2 6 

Through Charles Street to West 

Boston Bridge 2 35 — 5 5 1 

Boston, the metropolis of New England, stands on a 
peninsula situated on the western extremity of Massachu- 
setts Bay, or rather an inlet therefrom called Boston 
Harbour. The streets of the old parts of the town are ir- 
regular and crooked, some parts of them are of a width 
sufficient to admit free passing for four carriages abreast 
and others in the same range are so contracted, that it is 
with difficulty two carriages can pass without encroach- 
ing on the side walk ; however it is undergoing a very 
rapid improvement, streets, wharves, piers and avenues 
seem to rise as though by the hand of magic, the old 



Boston. 10 

ones at the same time undergoing a transformation, 
while those newly formed are laid out spacious and 
with skill. There is one avenue on'y over the land 
leading to Boston, and that from the south-west, from 
Roxbury and over Boston neck, but there are four 
bridges, one leading from the south over South Boston 
Bay to the southerly part of Boston, one from the east 
and north over the outlet of Charles River Bay, from 
Charlestown, to the northerly part of Boston ; two from 
the west, the Cragie's, from Lechmore's Point, and the 
West Boston from Cambridge Port, over Charles River 
Bay to the westerly part of the town. All these bridg- 
es are built of wood and of a height sufficient to allow 
a free passage for the highest tides, and there are to 
each of them draws over the channel, to admit such 
vessels as can be navigated in the waters above the 
bridges. There is now just completed, an avenue and 
new roads leading from the western part of the coun- 
try, crossing the body of the Great or Charles River 
Bay from Sewall's Point in Brookline, to the junction 
of Charles and Beacon Streets, at the north-west part 
of the Common in Boston. This avenue is called the 
Boston and Roxbury Mill Dam, it is built of solid ma- 
terials above the highest tides, fifty feet wide on its sur- 
face. The principal leading streets from these avenues 
are generally of a good width, except that from Charles- 
town Bridge, which is irregular and too contracted for 
carriages, and in fact the whole northern section of the 
town stands in need of some general system of modern- 
ization. 

The surface of the peninsula on which Boston is 
built, swelleth into three eminences, viz. Beacon Hill 
on the westerly part, which riseth 110 feet above high 
water mark, and on its summit is built that majestic and 



20 Boston. 

ornamental structure the New State House, the cupalo 
whereof is 120 feet above its base, from which an exten- 
sive and most enchanting prospect of the country round, 
and of Boston Harbour is presented. On the southern 
declivity of this eminence are the beautifully decorated 
streets called Park and Beacon Streets, the former run- 
ning south-east and fronting on the Short Mall, the lat- 
ter south-west facing on the Upper Mall and the Com- 
mon. On its summit ridge, west of the State House, 
are those towering blocks of buildings, called Mount 
Vernon, and Olive Street descending therefrom over its 
western declivity. On these three streets there are 
splendid and magnificent mansions, commanding exten- 
sive and picturesque town and country views. Fort 
Hill, another eminence, lieth on the easterly part of the 
peninsula, it riseth about 80 feet above the sea ; on its 
summit is acircular green of about 200feet diameter with 
trees planted and walks formed thereon ; on the north, 
west and south thereof are some respectable blocks of 
brick houses called Washington Place. The easterly part 
of this hill lies open to the harbour and may be made a 
pleasant building scite. The other eminence lieth at 
the northern part of the town, is called Copps Hill, ris- 
eth about 50 feet above the sea and at present is unim- 
proved. 

Boston Common or Parade Ground is a piece of pas- 
ture land containing about 45 acres (including the 
Malls) ornamented with scattered trees and tufts of plan- 
tations, circumscribed by streets, and having those de- 
lightful malls or pleasure grounds round three of its 
sides, which are composed of beautiful gravelled, green 
and terrace walks, tastefully arranged, shaded with lof- 
ty and graceful forest trees, and is attended by the most 



Boston. 21 

ashionable circles in their morning and evening prom- 
made . 

Uniformity of system in building seems but in a few 
nstances to have been observed (aud those of latter 
ears) every one hath a notion of his own, so much that 
n even the.principal streets you see one house towering 
ibove another, some advanced as though to attract at- 
ention, others set back seemingly to avoid gaze or no- 
ice, some with bow windows and arched doors, others 
traight and square 5 roofs and walls equally discordant; 
he side walks are interrupted by steps, cellar doors, 
sc. which not only annoys, but at night even hazards 
he passenger, and in fact the streets may be said to be 
miformly irregular and crooked, and at this time it is 
lelieved the whole town cannot present a precise straight 
md parallel street, though some of those latterly built 
ipproximate very near and are intended to be such ; but 
here seems a propensity amongst some of the land- 
lolders, particularly when they erect buildings, to en- 
croach on the street, so that the original lines as laid 
>ut are seldom attended to; and this evil, however much 
t is regretted, cannot be remedied until some capable 
aerson is appointed by the town to superintend and lay 
>ut the precise line against the streets, over which no 
juilding shall be erected nor obstruction formed. 

There is a considerable quantity of unimproved land 
and many large gardens and vacant tracts within the 
town, so much that there may be erected, on the penin- 
sula, double the number of dwelling houses to what 
there now are, with suitable yards and accommodations, 
without over crowding or extending its limits. 

The hotels, taverns and other public houses for the 
accommodation of travellers are commodious and aiBu- 



22 Boston. 

ent, affording every luxury of the season, stocked with 
the best wines and spirits, and the utmost exertion gen- 
erally is used to give satisfaction. The markets are 
plentifully supplied with every kind of provision, fruit 
and vegetable which the country produces. 

There are two theatres in this town, the old theatre 
in Federal Street and the Amphi-theatre back of Wash- 
ington Gardens, Common Street. The former is under 
the management of Messrs. Dickson and Duff and is 
established altogether for theatrical amusements, hav- 
ing a corps of respectable performers, musicians, &c. re- 
gularly engaged for the annual season, which is about 
eight months. The latter is supported by subscription, 
and the performances are by amateurs, and periodical 
as circumstances may occur, often giving way for the 
accommodation of strolling performers in their va- 
rious lines of amusement. There are also three muse- 
ums and the gallery of fine arts on this peninsula, and 
many other places for public amusements. 

Boston Harbour and Bay is an inlet from the Atlantic 
Ocean ; it extends from Nantasket to Boston, and spreads 
from Chelsea to Hingham, containing about 75 square 
miles. It is bespangled with upwards of 100 islands or 
rocks, and receives the waters from Mystic, Charles, 
Neponset and Manatticut Rivers, with several other 
smaller streams which empty themselves therein. The 
most noted islands are Noddles Island and Bell Isle 
lying north of Boston on the Chelsea coast, Governor's 
Island and Castle Island, both of which are fortified, 
and lie about two and a half miles east from Boston, 
dividing the inner from the outer harbour, about one 
mile distant from each other, and the only channel for 
large ships passeth between them. Deer Island about 



Boston. 23 

ve miles east, Long Island about five and a half east 
y south, these last two Islands command the outer har- 
)ur, and in case of war would make a powerful defence 
ere they fortified. Thompson and Spectacle Islands 
b south-easterly towards Squantum and within the 
arallel of Long Island. Rainsford or Hospital Island 
about one mile south-easterly from Long Island. Gal- 
p, George and Lovel's Islands lie east by south from 
sven to eight miles from Boston and between Broad 
ound and Nantasket Road. Pethick's Island lies south 
P Nantasket Road on Hingham Bay. The Light 
[ouse Island, on which the Light House stands, lieth 
>uth, 69 c east, 8| miles nearly. The Brewsters, Calf 
Hand, Green Island, &c. lie northerly from the 
light House, forming a chain of islands, rocks and 
;dges about three miles, to the Graves Rocks, between 
hich no ship attempts to pass. 

, The water in this harbour is of a sufficient depth to 
limit ships of the largest class ; but there are extensive 
ats, shoals, reefs, &c. which in some places contract 
le ship channel into a narrow space and renders the 
avigation precarious in unfavourable winds, and indeed 
I all times great care is needed to keep clear of reefs. 
j The wharves and piers in Boston are extensive (some 
ear three furlongs in length) provided with spacious 
^ores and warehouses, with every convenience for the 
ife mooring and security of vessels, they are mostly 
ry at low water, and there are no wet or dry docks in 
lie neighbourhood. 

j Boston is bounded easterly on the harbour, north 
nd west on the harbour and the great or back bay, 
Ontherly on Roxbury. Its greatest length from north 
o south is 2\ miles ; width from east to west If miles. 



2h Boston. 

Distances from the Old State House in Boston to th 
Taverns and other Houses most frequented by parties. 



To Nahant by land 

To Nahant by water 

To Spring Pond Hotel in Lynn 

To the Fresh Pond Hotel 

To the Washington Hotel on Boston Neck 

To Marcey's Hotel, Lechmore Point 

To Whitney's in Charlestown 

To Chelsea, over the bridges 

To Billings' at Blue Hills in Milton 

To Atherton's in Miiton 

To Milton Bridge 

To Neponset Hotel in Quincy 

To the Punch Bowl Tavern in Brookline, 

over the Dam 
To Richards' Tavern in Brookline 
To Medford Hotel over the Turnpike 
To Medford Hotel over Cragie's Bridge and 

Winter Hill 5 

To late Bird's now Bellows' Tavern in 

Watertown 5 

To Stratton's in Watertown 7 

To Smith's, Waltham Plains 10 



Boston and Roxbury Mill Dam. 

The Mill Dam a. b. c. d. e. just completed by the 
Boston and Roxbury Mill Corporation, from Beacon 
Street in Boston to Sewall's Point in Brookline, is com* 
posed of solid materials and made water tight; its sur 



M. 


F. 


14 


7 


10 





±2 





5 


2 


2 


1 


1 


2 


1 





2 


4 


10 


6 


9 


6 


6 


3 


6 


2 


3 


6 


6 


2 


4 


7 




MlliTh IDAM 



Boston. 25 

face is horizontal about three or four feet above high 
water mark, fifty feet in width and one mile and a half 
in length. This Dam cutgoft'and incloses about 600 acres 
of the southerly part of the Back or Great Bay, (over 
which the tide before regularly flowed) and renders the 
water that is now admitted therein subservient and 
manageable. 

At c. f. there is a cross dam running from the main 
dam to Gravelly Point, which is also water proof, and 
divides the part of the Great Bay cut off by the long 
dam into two parts ; the westerly part containing about 
one hundred acres is intended as a full basin, or reser- 
voir of water. The easterly part contains about five hun- 
dred acres and is intended as an empty or receiving 
basin. 

In the long dam at b. there are five pair of flood 
doors grooved in massy piers of hewn stone, each 
pair moves from their opposite pivots towards the cen- 
tre of the aperture on a horizontal platform of stone 
until they close in an obtuse angle on a projected line 
cut on the platform from the pivots in the piers to the 
centre of the space, with their angular points northerly 
on the open or uninclosed part of the bay. The object 
of these doors is to close against the flow of tides and 
prevent the passage of water into the empty basin, con- 
sequently at high tide that basin will be empty, with 
the exception of the waste waters received, during the 
flow of the tide, from the full basin after having sup- 
plied the mills, which is calculated will not rise to a 
height sufficient to impede the power necessary to carry 
Ithe works. 

At d. there are six watertight sluices leading into the 
full basin. These sluices are to open every tide when 
3 



26 Boston. 

the water in the outer or uninclosed part of the bay 
hath the ascendancy over the water in the full basin, 
in order to admit the flow of tide into the reservoir, 
and to be closed immediately at high water; by this 
process the full basin will be left full of water every 
tide as high as the tide has flown, if so high it is 
needed. 

Gravelly Point in Roxbury is intended as the scite 
whereon mills or factories are to be erected, somewhat 
in the line g. g. g. between the full and receiving ba- 
sins, and sluice ways are to be built from the full basin 
at h. h. &c. of a size sufficient to admit so much water 
as will move and keep in motion the power contracted 
for. The waste water therefrom falling into a raceway 
which conducts it to the empty basin, and this empty 
basin discharges itself every tide at low water through 
the flood doors, so that the reservoir is filled at high 
water and the receiving basin emptied at low water, by 
which means there will be a continual supply of water 
through the sluice ways from the full basin, to set and 
keep at all times in motion the mills, factories, or oth- 
er water powers that are erected between the basins, 
and there will be a suflieient fall from the water in the 
full basin to the water in the receiving basin to pre- 
vent the mills from choaking, so that the powers may 
with propriety be said to be perpetual. 

There are two roads leading from the long dam, one 
west by north to the Brighton road, the other south- 
westerly to the Punch Bowl village in Roxbury, both 
whereof considerably shortens the distance to Boston 
from the west and south-westerly parts of the country, 
and there is one road leading from the short dam to 
Roxbury Street, 



South Boston. 27 

From the Old State House to South Boston Point. 



Intermediate Summary, 

distances. 



M. F. R. M. F. R, 

To (he beginning of South Boston 

Bridge 1 1 22—0 00 

Length of the Bridge 2 11— -1 3 36 
To the beginning of the South 

Boston Turnpike 31—1 4 27 

To the old Dorchester Road 5 26—2 2 13 
To the road leading to the late 

Hobbs' Tavern 3 31—2 6 4 
To the Tavern or last house on 

the point 6 1 — 3 3 5 



South Boston is situated southerly of Boston Har- 
bour and north of Dorchester, from which it was 
set oft' in the year 1804. It is separated from the town 
of Boston by a hay over which a bridge is built, is laid 
out into streets, lots, &c. and settlements are fast form- 
ing thereon; is in length about if miles and about half 
a mile in breadth ; bounded east, north and west on wa- 
ter, and south partly by water and partly by a straight 
line which divides it from Dorchester. There is some 
marsh land on the westerly part of the town, but the 
principal part of the soil is dry upland, which swells 
into small eminences, the most considerable are the two 
called South Boston heights, which hath forts erected 
on their summits, the southerly whereof is 135 feet, and 
the northerly 118 feet above high tide water, 



28 Dorchester — Chelsea. 

From the Tavern at South Boston Point to Eaton's I'a- 
vern in Dorchester. 

Intermediate Summary, 

distances. 



M. F. R. M. F. R. 

To the toll gate on South Boston 

Turnpike 1 4 35 — 00 

To Eaton's Tavern 1 6 10—3 3 5 



From the Old State House to Chelsea Meeting House. 



To Charlestovvn Square 

To the beginning of Chelsea 

Bridge 
Length of the Bridge 
To the Cross Road to Chelsea 

Meeting House 
To Chelsea Meeting House 
To Chelsea Beach 
To Point Shirley 



Chelsea is situated on the northern side of Boston 
Harbour and Mystic River and on the west of Lyun 
Bay. 

The south, east, and north margin of the town is low 
and has considerable tracts of marsh or fen land, on the 
borders of Mystic River, Lynn Bay and Chelsea Creek. 
The surface of the body of the town is broken into 
small eminences with easy acclivities and convenient 
for culture, the highest whereof is Powder House Hill 
which is 220 feet above the sea. The soil of the 



Intermediate Summary, 
distances. 


M. F. 


R. Si. 


F. R. 


1 


38—0 


00 


5 


39 — 1 


6 37 


5 


20 — 2 


4 17 


2 


30—4 


5 7 


3 


32 — 5 


39 


6 


20 — 5 


7 19 


3 6 


1—9 


5 20 



Cambridge 



& 



upland is dry and healthy, principally adapted for til- 
lage and dry pasture. The settlements are thinly scat- 
tered over the town, the Salem Turnpike runs through 
the body thereof, which is a great acquisition to the 
landholders. 

There is a strip projecting from the north-west body 
of the town which runs north-westerly 3£ miles carrying 
a breadth of about 100 rods. This strip runs between 
the towns of Maiden and Saugus to Reading, and 
is mostly covered with wood. 

Chelsea is bounded northerly on Saugus, north-west- 
erly on South Reading, south-west and west on South 
Reading and Maiden, south on Boston Harbour and 
easterly on Lynn Bay. 

Bearing from the Old State House to Chelsea Meet- 
ing House North, 43^° East, 4 miles, 3 furlongs and 
.2 rods. 



Distance from the Old State House in Boston to Cam- 
bridgi 
Fort. 



bridge over West Boston and through Cambridge 



Intermediate Summary, 

distances. 



M. F. R. M. F. R: 

To the Toll House east end of 

West Boston Bridge 5 36 — 00 

To the Toll House the west end 

of West Boston Bridge 4 15-— 1 % 11 

To Hovey's Tavern 1 10—2 2 21 

To the Road branching off to 

Brighton 1 16—2 3 37 

To the Rev. Dr. Holmes' Meeting 

House 7 12—3 3 % 

#3 



30 Cambridge. 

From the Old State House to Cambridge over West Bos- 
ton Bridge and the straight Road passing by West 
Bow in Cambridge Port, 

Intermediate Summary, 

distances. 



M. F. R. M. F. R. 

To Brigham's Tavern l % 27—0 00 
To the branching off from the 

Causeway 2 5—1 4 32 
To the Cross Road by Cambridge 

Port Meeting House 5 — 2 1 32 

To the Rev. Dr. Holmes' M. H. 1 28—3 2 20 

From the Old State House to Cambridge over West Bos- 
t on Bridge and the Concord- Turnpike. 

- . Intermediate Summary, 

distances. 



M. F. R. M. F. R. 

To the branching off of the Turn- 
pike from the Causeway 1 3 7 — 00 

To the North-East corner of the 
College Yard against the Com- 
mon 17 2 — 3 2 9 

From the Old State to Cambridge over Cragie's Bridge 
and Road. 

intermediate Summary, 

distances. 



M. F. R. M. F. R. 

To the beginning of Cragie's 

Bridge 6 1 — oo 

To Marcey's Hotel 4 26 — 1 2 27 

To the point crossing the Middle- 
sex Turnpike 1 1 26—2 4 13 

To the North-East corner of the 

College Yard 7 10—3 3 23 



Cambridge. 31 

Those different roads from Boston to Cambridge are 
nearly level, passing over a flat and rather marshy coun- 
try, on which Cambridge Port i9 built, until within 
ibout half a mile of the Colleges ; when it impercepti- 
>ly rises to that elevated and healthy spot, on which 
the town of Cambridge and Harvard University are sit- 
uated, being about twenty feet above the level of the 
surrounding country. The most preferable of those 
>oads as to bottom is that of Cragie's though the great- 
est in point of length, yet its other advantages are 
lucre than a compensation for the trifling difference in 
distance. 

Next to Cragie's the one most used is that through 
Cambridge Port, but some part of this road is soft and 
muddy after rain, and in dry seasons so dusty, as to 
nake the travelling very unpleasant. The Concord Turn- 
pike is sandy and often out of repair. The tolls are all 
he same, being a single one over West Boston or Cra- 
pe's Bridge. 



Bearing from the Old State 
j| House to the Rev. Dr. Holmes' 

Meeting House, 
To Harvard University, 
To the Church, 









Distances. 




M. 


F. 


EC 


N. 


65° 


w.- 


-3 


2 





N. 


63J W.- 


—3 


% 


i 


N. 


63 : 


w.. 


-3 


3 






32 Chariest own—Medford — Brighton. 

From the Rev. Dr. Holmes' Meeting House in Cam- 
bridge to Charlestown. 

Intermediate Summary, 

distances. 



M. F. R. M. F. R 

To Cragie's Road 1 9—0 0( 

To the crossing the Middlesex 

Turnpike 4 28—0 5 35 

To the crossing of the Road from 

Lechmore's Point to Medford 6 36 — 1 4 32 
To the Hotel on Charlestown 

Neck 6 36—2 3 2£ 

To Charlestown Square 1 30 — 3 4 IS 

From the Rev. Dr. Holmes' Meeting House in Cam 
bridge to the Medford Hotel in Medford. 



To Davenport's Tavern 

To the crossing of the Winter 

Hill Road 
To the junction of Medford Road 
To the Medford Hotel 



From the Rev. Dr. Holmes' Meeting House in Cam' 
bridge to Brighton over the Lower or Marsh Road. 



To Cambridge Bridge 

To the cross way 

To the Road leading to Gorham 

Parsons, E«q. 
T© Brighton Meeting House 



Intermediate 
distances. 


Summary. 


M. F. R. M. 
1 1 20—0 


F. R 
0( 


f 

7 8—2 


2S 


4 13 — 2 


5 t 


6 14—3 


3 13 



Intermediate 


Summary. 


distances. 




M. F. R. M. 


F. R. 


2 38 


oc 


4 13 — 


7 11 


1 2 24—2 


1 SI 


3 14—2 


5 < 



Brighton — Roocbury. 33 

From the Rev. Dr. Holmes' Meeting House in Cam- 
bridge to Brighton partly over the new road from 
Cambridge Port. 



Vo the junction with the New Road 1 
ro the Road branching off for 

Brookline 
ro Brighton Meeting House 

?rom the Rev. Dr. Holmes' Meeting House in Cam- 
bridge to Jamaica Plains in Roxbury. 

Intermediate Summary. 

i distances. 



Intermediate 




Summary. 


distances. 








M. 


F. 


R. 


M. 


F. 


R. 


1 


2 


19- 


-0 





00 





2 


37- 


-1 


5 


16 


1 


1 


11- 


-2 


6 


27 



M. F. R. M. F. R. 

ro the Road branching from the 
Cambridge Port and Brighton 

Road for Brookline 1 5 16 — 00 

fo the Punch Bowl 2 1 20—3 6 36 

To Jamaica Plains at the cross 
by the seat of the Hon. Jona- 
than Heath l l ±2 — 5 8 



worn the Rev. Dr. Holmes' Meeting House in Cam- 



bridge to Jingier's Corner. 



Intermediate Summary, 

distances. 



M. F. R. M. F. R. 

Co the opening of the Road lead- 
1 ingfrom the Lower Brighton or 
ij Marsh Road to Gorham Par- 
j sons, Esq. 2 

the seat of G. Parsons, Esq. 

o Mr. John Parkman's 

ro the Guide board at the foot of 

the Hill 

o Angier's Corner 



■: 



1 


35—0 





00 


3 


32—2 


5 


27 


3 


8—3 





35 


1 


20—3 


2 


15 


y 


35 — 4 


2 


10 



34 Cambridge^-Charlestown. 

From the Rev. Dr. Holmes'* Meeting House in Cam- 
bridge to the Fresh Pond Hotel. 

Intermediate Summary, 

distances. 

M. F. R. M. F. V 

To the Road leading to the Hotel l 2 31—0 o 0* 
To the Hotel # 3—1 6 3 

From the Old State House in Boston to Charlestown. 

Intermediate Summary 

distances. 



M. F. 11. M. F. K 

To the beginning of Charlestown 

Bridge 5 31—0 0( 

To Charlestown Square 3 4 — 1 

To the corner of Austin Street 2 19 — 1 3 

To the Tavern on the Neck 6 11—2 1 IS 

To the State Prison in Charlestown over Charlestown 
Bridge. 

Intermediate Summary, 

distances. 



M. F. R. M. F. R. 

To Charlestown Square l 38 — o oa 

To the entrance door of the State 

Prison 3 21 — 1 4 19 

To the State Prison over Cragie's Bridge. 

Intermediate Summary, 

distances. 



M. F. R. M. F. R. 

To Cragie's Bridge 6 1—0 o 00 

To the Cross Bridge 2 37—1 3S 
To the entrance door of the State 

Prison 3 14—1 4 ±2 
To the Main Street at the head 

of Austin Street o l 33—1 6 8 



Charlestown. 35 

The compact or thickly settled part of the town of 
charlestown is situated on a peninsnla, between the bays 
>r outlets of the Rivers Charles on the south and Mystic 
n the north. This part of the town is about one mile 
ind a quarter in length and three quarters of a mile in 
readth, which is principally laid out in regular streets 
nd thickly settled In this peninsula are situated 
Junker and Breed Hills, noted in the early history of 
he Revolutionary war ; the former is 113, and the lat- 
iff 87 feet above high tide. — The United States Navy 
r ard lies on the south-east part of this peninsula and 
le Massachusetts State Prison on the south-westerly 
£art thereof. The priucipal manufactory is leather 
ressing, particularly morocco. There are some res- 
pectable stores and warehouses round the square occu- 
ied in the various mercantile interests. 
< The remainder of the town is of a singular shape, Tun- 
ing north little westerly seven miles, and not averaging 
breadth of one mile, and in some parts it is not a quarter 
'f a mile in width. The soil north of the peninsula is 
'rincipally dry upland and calculated for pasture and 
illage. The town is bounded southerly on the harbour 
ind Charles River Bay as far as Miller's Creek, then 
aid creek and a line divides it from Cambridge Port, 
westerly by a tolerable straight line (excepting a projec- 
tion made for some private accommodation near Dav- 
enport's tavern) on Cambridge and West Cambridge, 
ortherly on Woburn, easterly partly on Mystic Riv- 
r and partly by a crooked zigzag line running from 
lystic River to Winter Hill, and returning again to 
jaid river near the Ten Hill Farm, which said river 
nd line divides it from the town of Medford, then by 
lie channel of said river to the harbour. 



36 Charlestown. — Medford. 

Distances. 



M. F. R. 



Bearing from the Old State 

House to the Rev. Dr. 

Morse's Meeting House. N. 6^° W.— 1 2C 

To the Rev. Mr. Walker's 

Meeting House N. S£ W.— 



From the Old State House to Medford through Charles 
town and over the Medford Turnpike. 



To the Tavern on Charlestown 
Neck 

To the Ten Hill Farm 

To the Medford Hotel 

To the seat of his Excellency Gov- 
ernor Brooks 1 26 — 5 1 

To the Rev. Dr. Osgood's Meet- 
ing House 2 4 — 5 3 10 



From the Old State House to Medford through Charles- 
town and over Winter Hill. 

Intermediate Summary. 

distances. 



Intermediate S 
distances. 


umm 


ary. 


M. F. R. M. 


F. 


R. 


2 1 18 





oc 


1 21— -3 


1 


3S 


1 5 21 — 4 


7 


2G 



M. F. R. M. F. R. 

To the Tavern on Charlestown 

Neek 2 1 18—0 00 
To the Cross Road on Winter 

Hill 1 6 12—3 7 30 

To Medford Hotel 1 2 36—5 2 26j 



Medford. 3? 

From the Old State House to Medford over Cragie's 
Bridge and Winter Hill. 

Intermediate Summary 

distances. 



M. F. R. M. F. R. 

To Marcey's Hotel 1 2 27-^0 00 
To the Cross Road leading from 

Cambridge to Charlestown 1 32 — 2 3 10 
To the Cross Road on Winter 

Hill 1 3 16 — 3 6 35 

To Medford Hotel 1 2 36—5 1 31 



The three roads to Medford, are generally speaking 
formed of hard materials, and kept in good repair; the 
most level and nearest of which is the Turnpike, but 
this is subject to a half toll. The other two are in 
point of acclivities much the same, both passing over the 
summit of Winter Hill, which is 124 feet above the sea, 
but the enchanting prospect therefrom is a great induce- 
ment to the traveller. 

The southerly part of Medford is composed of a rich 
marshy soil, through which Mystic River hath formed 
its serpentine course, and on the west margin whereof 
is cut the Middlesex Canal. On each side of those 
marshes, there is a rich tract of arable, meadow and 
pasture land, and some very highly cultivated, until you 
reach Mystic Pond ; north of which the country is rather 
broken and little woody, though there is still a consider- 
able portion cultivated, and some rich soil. The north 
ind north-east parts of the town, towards Stoneham, is 
nore broken, and generally rocky or covered with wood. 
Medford is the residence of his excellency John Brooks, 
Esq. present Governor of this Commonwealth. 

The most compact and thickly settled part of the 
4 



38 Medford — Maiden — West Cambridge. 

town is on the north-east bank of the Mystic, this part 
is very delightfully situated, sufficiently elevated to 
command an extensive and picturesque view of the 
country. 

The town is bounded southerly and westerly, partly 
by Mystic River and partly by an irregular line, on 
Charlestown and Woburn, northerly on Woburn and 
Stoneham, easterly by nearly a straight line on Mai- 
den. 

Bearing to the Rev. Dr. Osgood's Meeting House, 
north, 29° west, 5 miles and 2 rods from the Old State 
House. 

From Medford Hotel to Maiden. 

Intermediate Summary, 

distances. 



M. F. R. M. F. R. 

To the Old Road leading (o Stone- 
ham 4 29 — 00 
To the cross way in Maiden 

Street 2 4—2 4 i 

To Maiden Meeting House 33 — 2 5 26 

Bearing (o Maiden Meeting House north, 78 1° east, 
2 miles, 1 furlong and 38 rods. 

From Medford Hotel to West Cambridge. 

Intermediate Summary, 

distances. 



M. F. R. M. F. R. 

To the Rev. Dr. Osgood's Meet- 
ing House 3 30 — 00 

To the Road by the seat of the 

Hon. P. C. Brooks 1 1 24 — 1 5 14 

To West Cambridge Street 1 14 — 2 5 28 

To West Cambridge Meeting 

House 1 2 — 2 6 30 



Cambridge — West Cambridge. 39 

Bearing to West Cambridge Meeting House north 
$5± B west, 2 miles and 36 rods. 

From the Old State House to West Cambridge through 
Cambridge and by Davenport-s Tavern, 

Intermediate Summary* 

distances. i 



M. F. R. M. F. R. 

To the north-cast corner of the 

College Yard over Cragie's 

Bridge and Road (page 30) 8 3 23 — 00 

To Davenport's Tavern 1 8 — 4 S 31 
To West Cambridge Meeting 

House 2 2 12—6 6 18 

From the Old State House to West Cambridge over West 
Boston Bridge and the Middlesex Turnpike. 

Intermediate Summary, 

distances. 



JUL, F. R. M. F. R. 

To the beginning of the Middle- 
sex Turnpike 1 6 1 — 00 

Fo the crossing of the Middlesex 

Turnpike and Cragie's Road 6 20 — 2 4 21 

Fo the crossing of the Road lead- 
ing from Cambridge to Charles- 
town 3 20 — 3 O i 

Vo the junction with the Old 

Road 7 36—3 7 37 

l'o Davenport's Tavern 1 1 — 4 38 

ro the Brook dividing the town 
of Cambridge from West 

Cambridge 1 18 — 5 1 16 

l 1 o West Cambridge Meeting 

House l 1 34—6 3 in 



40 West Cambridge. 

From the Old State House to West Cambridge over Cra- 
gie's Bridge and Winter Hill. 

Intermediate Summary, 

distances. 



M. F. R. M. F. R. 

To the Cross Road on Winter 

Hill (page 37> 3 6 35—0 00 
To the crossing the Cambridge • 

and Medford Road 3 24— 4 2 19 
To West Cambridge Meeting 

House 2 1 8—6 3 27 



From the Old State House to West Cambridge through 
Charlestown and over Winter Hill. 

Intermediate Summary, 

distances. 



M. F. R. M. F. R. 

To the Cross Road leading from 

Cragie's Bridge to Medford 3 7 30 — 00 
To West Cambridge Meeting 

House 2 4 32 — 6 4 22 



From the Old State House to West Cambridge over 
Cragie's Road and the Middlesex Turnpike. 

Intermediate Summary, 

distances. 



M. F. R. M. F. R. 

To the junction of Cragie's Road 

and Middlesex Turnpike 2 4 13—0 o 00 

To West Cambridge Meeting 

House 3 6 29—6 3 2 



West Cambridge. 4* 



& 



The different roads to West Cambridge vary but lit 
tie in point of distance ; but the nearest and easiest to 
travel is the one last named over Cragie's and the Mid- 
dlesex Turnpike, which hath but few hills, and those of 
?asy ascent. This road is generally in good repair, and 
is liable to a half toll on the Middlesex Turnpike. The 
roads over Winter Hill in moderate weather are very 
pleasant, and the acclivities though an objection to 
heavy loads, are not so great as much to impede the 
progress of light carriages. 

The southerly part of the town of West Cambridge is 
low and some part swampy. The middle is dry and 
healthy with some good tillage and pasture land. The 
northern part is broken, rocky and partially covered 
with wood. 

This town was formerly a part of Cambridge, was 
jet off in the year 1807, and is bounded southerly ou 
Cambridge, westerly on Watertown and Waltham, 
northerly on Lexington and easterly on Charlestown. 

Bearing from the Old State House north. 44« 
.vest, 6 miles 2 furlongs and 1 rod. 



&4 



43 



Roxbury. 



From Boston Old State House to Roxbury and on to tha 
Punch Bowl. 



To Boylston Market 

To the Green Store 

To J. D. Williams' Store 

To the Washington Hotel 

To the Roxbury line 

To the cross way at the burial 

ground 
To the beginning of the Dedham 

Turnpike 
To the Rev Dr. Porter's Meeting 

House. 
To the branching off of the Road 

for Jamaica Plains 
To the road leading to the Tide 

Mills 
To Gen. Dearborn's seat 
^To the seat of Ebenezer Francis 

Esq. 
To the Punch Bowl Tavern 



Intermediate Summary, 

distances. 



M. F. R. M. F. R. 

4 6 — 00 

4 32 — 1 38 

2 15—1 3 13 

5 34—2 1 7 

30—2 1 3T 

1 0—2 2 37 

2 10—2 5 7 

1 36—2 7 3 

39—3 2 

2 26—3 2 28 

1 26 — 3 4 14 

1 35—3 6 9 

5 17 — * 3 26 



From the Old State House to Roxbury over the Mill 
Bam and by the Tide Mills. 

Intermediate Summary, 

distances. 



To the beginning of the Mill Dam 



To the Cross Dam 
To the Tide Mills 
To Roxbury Street 
To General Dearborn's 



M. 




F. 

5 


R. M. 

19-0 


F. 



R. 
00 





7 


39 — 1 


5 


IS 


1 


1 


0—2 


6 


18 





2 


16—3 





34 





1 


26—3 


2 


20 



Roxbury. 43 

From the Old State Bouse to Jamaica Plains. 

Intermediate Summary! 



To the Rev. Dr Porter's Meeting 
House (p. 42.) 2 

To Hogg Bridge 

To the Cross Road by the Hon. 
Jonathan Heath's 

To the Cross Road leading to 
Mr. Boylston's 

To the Cross Road leading to Ja- 
maica Pond 

To the Rev. Mr. Gray's Meeting 

House 2 36 — 4 7 38 

from the Old State House to the Punch Bowl over the 
Mill Dam and New Road. 



To the beginning of the Dam 

To the west end of the Dam 

To the Old Road from Roxbury 

to the Punch Bowl 
To the Punch Bowl Tavern 



distances. 






F. 


R. M. 


F. 


R, 


! 7 


3—0 





00 


I 5 


20 — 3 


4 


23 


4 


1 — 4 





24 


1 1 


25 — 4 


2 


9 


l 2 


23 — 4 


5 


2 



Intermediate Summary, 
distances. 


M. F. 


R. M. 


F. ft. 


5 


19—0 


00 


1 4 


0—2 


1 19 


1 3 


25 — 3 


5 4 


1 


2 — 3 


6 6 



The town of Roxbury is thickly settled, particularly 

l the north and westerly parts thereof. The old roads are 

• very injudiciously laid out, it seems as though common 

chance had guided their course more than rule or judg- 

i ment; they are generally speaking, formed of hard ma- 

»! terials and kept in good order, with but few troublesome 

hills. The Dedham 1 urnpike runs diametrically 

through the centre of the town in nearly a straight 



i* lloxbitry. 

line, and is a great acquisition thereto. On the north- 
east skirts of the town there is about one thousand acres 
^f marsh ; south-westerly whereof about three fourths 
of a mile the soil is rich and fertile, and within this par- 
allel the most compact part of the town is built. Then 
proceeding still south-west the surface becomes more 
uneven with some considerable swells and ledges of 
rocks for about half a mile when you break in upon the 
beautiful plain called Jamaica Plains, which is compos- 
ed of a rich and productive soil, cultivated in a great 
degree as gardens and orchards and producing vast 
quantities of vegetables and fruit of the first quality. 
This plain is about two miles in length and one in 
breadth, on which are dispersed a great number of 
country seats and pleasure grounds. The east and 
south-east, including about one third of the town, is con- 
siderably broken and rocky with about two thousand 
acres of woodland, but notwithstanding there are ma- 
ny good farms within this space. 

The town is bounded northerly on Boston and 
Charles River Bay, north-west on Brookline and New- 
ton, south-west on Dedham, and south-east on Ded- 
ham and Dorchester. It is upwards of seven miles in 
length, and about one and three fourths of a mile 
broad. 

Distances. 



Bearing from the Old State 
House to the Rev. Dr. Por- 
ter's Meeting House S. 47° W. — 2 4 28 

To the Rev. Mr. Gray's Meet- 
ing House on Jamaica Plains S. 47^ W. — * 4 oa 

To the Rev. Mr. Bradford's 

Meeting House S. 49 \ W. — 6 5 00 



Dorchester. 45 

Vrbm the Old State House to Dorchester over the South 
Boston Turnpike and by the Five Corners. 



Intermediate Summary 

distances. 



M. F. R. M. F. R. 

|o South Boston Bridge 1 1 22—0 00 

Vo the Beginning of South Bos- 
ton Turnpike 8 5 — 1 4 27 

To the Toll Gate at the junction 
of the Old Road 

ro the Five Corners 

To the Road leading to Roxbury 2 27 — i 

To Eaton's Tavern,near the Rev. 

Dr. Harris's Meeting House. 6 4 — 4 1 17 



J 

?rom the Old State House to Dorchester through Rox* 

| bury. 



20—2 


3 


7 


19—3 





2$ 


27—3 


3 


13 



Intermediate Summary, 

distances. 



M. F. R. M. F. R. 



To the burial ground in Roxbury 

Street 2 2 37—0 00 

To Mrs. M'Gee's House 6 27—3 1 24 
To the junction with the Road 

from South Boston 5 1—3 6 25 
To Eaton's Tavern near the Rev. 

Dr. Harris's Meeting House 6 4 — 4 4 29 



46 Dorchester. 

From the Old State House to Dorchester Upper Meeting 
House through Roxbury. 



Intermediate Summary, 

distances. 



- ■- M. F. R. M. F. R. 

To the burial ground in Roxbury 

Street 2 2 Z7 — 00 

To the Cross Road leading from 

ihe Rev. Dr. Porter's Meeting 

House to Dorchester Lower 

Meeting House 1 17 — 2 4 14 

To the beginning of the Brush 

Hill Turnpike 1 3 1 — 3 7 15 

To the Four Corners 1 2 6 — 5 1 21 

To the Rev. Mr. Codman's 

Meeting House 5 — 5 6 21 



From the Old State House to Dorchester passing by the 
Rev, Dr. Harris's Meeting House. 



Intermediate Summary, 

distances. 



M. F. R. M. F. R. 

To Eaton's Tavern near the Rev. 

Dr. Harris's Meeting House 4 1 17 — 00 

To the Four Corners 6 18—4 7 35 

To the Rev. Mr. Codman's Meet- 
ins? House 5 — 5 4 35 



Milton. 47 

From the Old State House to Milton Bridge over the 
South Boston Turnpike. 

Intermediate Summary, 

distance*. 



M. F. R. M. F. R. 

Fo the beginning of the Turnpike 

near South Boston Bridge 1 4 27 — o 00 

iFo the Toll Gate at the crossing 

of the Old Road 6 20 — 2 3 7 

ro the cross way opposite Mr. 

White's 6 4 — 3 1 it 

Fo the Road leading to Commer- 
cial Point 6 12 — 3 7 23 
Vo the Cross Road leading from 

Dorchester Lower Meeting 

House to Neponset 3 9 — 4 2 32 

Vo the Cross Road leading from 

Dorchester Upper Meeting 

House to Neponset 

Fo (he end of the Turnpike 1 

Fo the centre of Milton Bridge 



From the Old State House to Milton Bridge through 
Roxbury and over the Upper Road. 

Intermediate Summary, 

distances. 



4 


14— 4 


7 


6 


4 


2 — 6 


3 


8 





29—6 


3 


37 



M. F. R. M. F. R. 

l^o the Rev. Mr. Codman's 

Meeting House (page 46) 5 6 21 — 00 
To the Rev. Mr. Richmond's 

Meeting House 1 1 12 — 6 7 23 

fo the Centre of Milton Bridge 1 27 — 7 1 20 



,48 Dorchester. 

The north-east half of Dorchester is altogether set- 
tled, and generally composed of a rich soil and highly 
cultivated. The old roads are crooked, are but little 
troubled with acclivities, formed of hard materials and 
kept in good repair, with country seats, farm houses, 
&c. thickly arranged on their sides. There are but few 
hills in this part of the town and those of easy ascent, 
(not exceeding 175 feet in height) with their sides gene- 
rally covered with fruit or other trees, which gives a 
very picturesque appearance to the face of the country. 
There is about 250 acres of salt marsh on the north bank 
of Neponset River, and 350 on the Bay. The upper or 
south-west part of the town is more neglected, notwith- 
standing there are thick settlements and the lands cul« 
tivated on the north bank of Neponset River for about 
half a mile in width throughout the town. There is; 
about 1500 acres of woodland on the north-west part of 
the town against Roxbury, which is more hilly, the sum- 
mit whereof being 385 feet above the sea. There are 
five dams erected across Neponset River, the first or 
uppermost at William Sumner's paper and grist mills, 
the second near Milton Upper Bridge, where there are 
grist, paper and other mills, the third about half a mile 
below for a cotton factory, paper mills, &c. the fourth 
at Boice's factory and the last near Milton Bridge, at 
the falls, to supply several paper, grist and other mills. 
The tide flows up to the foot of these falls. 

The town is bounded northerly by a straight line on 
-South Boston, easterly on the Bay, south easterly on 
Neponset River, the channel whereof divides it from 
the towns of Quincy and Milton to the junction with 
Mother Brook then by the channel of Mother 
Brook about half a mile to the Dedham line, south* 



Milton, 49 

westerly by a straight line on Dedham, north-westerly 
by a line with one angle therein on Roxbury, to a 
brook at the road at Mrs. M'Gee's house, then by said 
brook and by South Boston Bay to the South Boston 
line. The town is 7| miles in length, averaging about 
1£ mile in breadth. 

There is an island in the Bay, called Thompson's Isl- 
and, about \\ mile long, and a quarter of a mile wide, 
belonging to this town. 



Distances. 
M. F. R. 

Bearing from the Old State 
House to the Rev. Dr. Har- 
ris's Meeting House. S. lt|° W.— 3 3 30 

To the Rev. Mr. Codman's 

Meeting House S. 16 W.— 4 5 10 

To the Rev. Dr. Richmond's 
Meeting House S. 14 W.~ 5 6 30 

From Eaton's Tavern to Neponset Bridge. 

Intermediate Summary, 

distances. 



M. F. R. M. F. Ro 

(To the crossing the Turnpike 3 38 — 00 
(To the Toll gate at Neponset 1 4 33—2 31 

From Eaton's Tavern near the Rev. Dr. Harris's Meet- 
J ing House to Milton Bridge over the Old Road. 



To the branching 


off of the Old 


Intel-mediate 
distances. 


M. 


Summary. 


M. 


F. 


R. 


F. 


Ro 


Road from Nepo 


nset Turnpike 





6 


32- 


-0 





00 


To the Cross Road leading to Ne- 














ponset 
I'o Milton Bridge 
5 






1 


7 
2 


24- 
12- 


-.1 

-3 


6 



16 

28 



s% Dorchester — Brookline. 

From the Rev. Mr, Codman's Meeting House to Milton 
Upper Bridge, 2 miles, 1 furlong and 16 rods. 

From the Four Corners in Dorchester to William Sum- 
ner's Mills. 

Intermediate Summary, 

distances. 



M. F. R. M. F. R. 

To the Brush Hill Turnpike 7 18—0 00 
To the Cross Road at Mr. C. 

Stimpson's 1 1 00—2 18 

To William Sumner's Mills 1 6 21—3 6 39 



From the Cross by Cornelius Coolidge's seat in Dorches- 
ter to Boston through the Road by Moses Inglee's seat. 

Intermediate Summary, 

distances. 



M. F. R. M. F. R. 

To the junction with the Old 

Road at Five Corners 4 24 — 00 

To Boston Old State House (page 

45) 3 26—3 5 00 

From the Old State House to Brookline Meeting House 
over the Worcester Turnpike. 

Intermediate Summary* 

distances. 



M. F. R. M. F. R. 

To the Punch Bowl over the Mill 

Dam 3 6 6—0 00 
To the road leading to Mr. Wal- 

Jey's 4 1 — * 2 7 

To Mr. Walley's House 38—4 3 5 

To Brookline Meeting House l 36 — 4 5 i 



Brookline. % I 



From the Old State House to Brookline Meeting House 
over the Old Road from the Punch Bowl. 

Intermediate Summary, 

distances. 



M. F. R„ M. F. R. 

To the Punch Bowl over the Mill 

"Dam (page 43) 3 6 6 — 00 

To Mr. Walley's House 4 21—4 2 27 

To Brookline Meeting House 1 36 — 4 4 23 

From the Old State House to Richards's Tavern over 
Worcester Turnpike. 

Intermediate Summary, 

distances. 



M. F. R. M. F. R. 

To the Puneh Bowl over the Mill 



Dam 3 6 6 — 00 
'To the Cross Road opposite the 

seat of T. H. Perkins, Esq. 1 5 2 — 5 3 S 

To Richards's Tavern 7 21 — 6 2 29 



From the Old State House to Richards' 's Tavern over the 
Old Road from the Punch Bowl. 



Intermediate Summary, 

distances. 



M. F. R. M. F. R. 

To the Punch Bowl (page 43) 3 6 6 — q 00 

To Brookline Meeting House 6 17 — 4 4 23 
To the Hon. Thomas H. Per- 

I kins's 1 1 16 — 5 5 39* 

To Richards's Tavern 7 37 — 6 5 3& 



52 Brooklim. 

The town of Brookline will be very materially im- 
proved by the Mill Dam which is now just built across 
the Great Bay, and the roads therewith connected. 
There is about 180 acres of salt marsh on the north- 
east part of the town against the Great Bay and Charles 
River. The remainder of the town is composed of dry 
and healthy upland, interspersed with detached clusters 
of trees, parcels of wood and some rocky acclivities. 
The soil is a mixture of good and bad, some rich and 
highly cultivated, other parts barren and almost neg- 
lected by the agriculturalist. The old roads are solid 
and pleasant for travelling. The Worcester Turnpike 
commences in this town and runs obliquely across it 
near three miles. 

In this town are situated the beautiful country seats 
of the Hon. Thomas H. Perkins, Hon. Jonathan Mason, 
Hon. Richard Sullivan, Esqrs. and also of D. Hyslip, 
T. Perkins, B. Goddard, J. Higginson, N. Ingersoll, 
Esqrs. and others, which is a great addition to its orna- 
ment and respectability. The town is about four 
miles long and one and a half wide, and is bounded 
north-easterly on Charles River, which separates it 
from Cambridge Port, south-easterly on Roxbury, south- 
westerly on Newton and north-westerly on Newton and 
Brighton. 



Distances. 



Bearing from the Old State 
House to the Rev. Mr. 
Pierce's Meeting House 

To the Hon. Thomas H. Per- 
kins's seat 

To Richards's Tavern 



M. F. 


a 


S. 641° W.— 4 2 


39 


S. 67 W — 5 


34 


S. 72 W.— 5 7 


4 



Moxbury' — Brighton* 8% : 

From the seat of the Hon. X. H. Perkins, Esq. in Brook* 
line to the Hon. Jonathan Heath's on Jamaica Plains, 
2 miles, I furlong and 2 rode. 



From the seat of the Hon. T. H Perkins, Esq. to 
the Rev. Mr* Gray's Meeting House on Jamaica 
Plains, 2 miles, 3 furlongs and 5 rods. 

From the seat of the Hon. T. H. Perkins, Esq. to 
Brighton Meeting House, 2 miles,i furlong and 16 rods. 

From the Old State House to Brighton over the Mill 
Dam and the New Road. 

Intermediate Summary, 

distances. 



M. F. R. M. F. R„ 

To the West End of the Mill 

Dam 2 ± 19— O 00 

To the intersection of the Cam* 

bridge Port Road 2 32 — 1 2 11 

To Brighton Meeting House 6 35 — 5 l 6 

•I 

l From the Old State House to Brighton through Cam- 
bridge Port and over Brighton Bridge. 

Intermediate Summary, 

distances. 

M. E. R» M. F. R. 

To the cross way in Cambridge 

Port 2 3 37—0 00 

To the centre of Brighton Bridge 5 31 — 3 1 31 

To the Old Road to Brookline 7 17— 4 1. 8 
To the junction with the Mill 

Dam Road 2 18 — *: 3 2& 

To Brighton Meeting House 6 S5— 5 2~ 21, 

*5 



64 Brighton. 



From the Old State House to Brighton through Roxbury 
and over the Old Road. 



Intermediate S 


umm 


ary 


distances. 






M. F. R. M. 


F. 


R. 


3 6 6—0 





00 


5 36—4 


4 


2 


1 4 38—6 


1 


00 



To the Punch Bowl (page 43) 

To Doctor Aspinwall's 

To Brighton Meeting House 



These different roads to Brighton are generally good, 
and the country through which they pass agreeably 
pleasant ; but the one just completed from the Mill 
Dam will be by far the most preferable, not only in 
point of distance, but the projectors seems to have spar- 
ed neither pains or expense in cutting through the ac- 
clivities and filling up the hollows, making the plane 
nearly level, and the best and hardest materials that 
could be obtained hath been used in forming the sur- 
face thereof. 

Brighton is situated on a rising ground, about 95 feet 
above the sea, it was formerly a part of Cambridge and 
was set offtherefrom in the year 1807. There is about 
200 acres of marsh on the bank of Charles River, 
otherwise the soil is dry and healthy, some whereof is 
rich and highly cultivated, particularly the farms of 
Gorham Parsons, J. Parkman, F. Winship, S. W.Pome- 
roy and the Hon. Jonathan Hunnewell, Esqrs. 

There is a weekly cattle market held on Monday 

throughout the year, and the greater part of the supply 

for the Boston Market passes through this channel. 

It is also the rendezvous of the Massachusetts A§ri« 



Watertown. 55 

cultural Society, they here hold annually their cattle 
show, ploughing match, &e. ; and have a hall erected 
for the deposit of improved implements in agriculture 
or mechanism, as also any superior manufactured arti- 
cles, all whereof hath such premiums awarded as their 
merit deserves. 

Bearing from the Old State House to Brighton 
Meeting House, south, 89° west, 4 miles, 7 furlongs and 
18 rods. > 



From the Old State House to Watertown through Cam- 
bridge Port and Old Cambridge. 



Intermediate Summary, 

distances. 



M. F. R. M. F. R, 

j To the Cross Road leading from 

the Colleges to Old Cambridge 

\ Bridge 3 3 20 — 00 

To the Cross Road South of the 

late Gov. Gerry's now Rev. 

\ Charles Lowell's seat 7 10 — 4 2 30 

To the Road leading to the Fresh 



! Pond 





2 


24—4 


5 


14 


To the late Bird's now Bellows's 












Tavern 





2 


36—5 





10 


To Mr. Coolidge's House 





5 


34—5 


6 


4 


'To Watertown Meeting House 





7 


25 — 6 


5 


29 


To the cross by Watertown 












j Bridge 





3 


23— 7 


1 


12 



s54 Watertown. 

From the Old State House to Watertown through 
Brighton. 

Intermediate Summary, 

distances. 



M. F. R. M. F. R 

To Brighton Meeting House over 

the Mill Dam 5 1 6—0 00 

To the guide board at the foot of 



the Hill 


6 15—5 7 


21 


To Angier's Corner 


7 35 — 6 7 


16 


To Watertown Bridge 


3 32 — 7 3 


8 



To the cross by Watertown Bridge 29 — 7 3 37 



From the Old State House to Watertown over Cragie's 
Road and passing north of the late Governor Ger* 
ry^s seat. 

Intermediate Summary. 

distances. 



M. F. R. M. F. R« 

To the north-east corner of the 

College Yard (page 30) 3 3 23—0 00 
To the cross north of the late 

Gov. Gerry's seat 1 6 — 4 S 29 
To the Road leading to Fresh 

Pond 2 21—4 6 10 

To the cross by Watertown Bridge 2 3 38 — 7 2. 8 



From the Old State House over the Mill Dam and con- 
templated Road, which is to cross the River near the 
! United States drsenal, will be 6 miles, 5 furlongs ant? 
28 rods. 



Watertown, 57 

The compact part of the town of Watertown is built 
principally on the north bank of Charles River, which 
is navigable for small sloops (there being full seven feet 
of water at high spring tides) up to the bridge; about 
forty rods above the bridge there is a dam built across 
the bed of the river which terminates the tide water ; 
this dam furnishes water for the supply of several pa- 
*per and other mills as well as the Watertown Cotton 
Factory. There is a small portion of the town south of 
Charles River, on which is situated the Boston Hat Fac- 
tory, a distillery and mills. The United States Arsenal 
'is built on the north bank of the river about one mile 
and a quarter below Watertown bridge. 

The road leading to Watertown from Cambridge is 
aandy and rather heavy for travelling, and the one from 
Brighton has objectionable acclivities. 
* At present I should presume the easiest road to trav- 
el is the one north of the late Governor Gerry's seat, but 
the one contemplated from the Mill Dam will be by far 
jhe most preferable if it should be made. The soil is 
generally dry and healthy, and the country swelling 
agreeably into small eminences, whose sides are orna- 
mented with clusters of trees, country seats, farm houses 

jind fruit trees. 

Nearly the whole town is under cultivation, and is 
founded easterly on Cambridge, northerly on West 

Cambridge, westerly on Waltham and southerly on the 

owns of Newton and Brighton. 



Distance!. 
I. F. ~R. 



earing from the Old State 

House to Watertown Meeting 
, House \ N. 76° W.— 6 1 26 

JTo Watertown Bridge N. 78 W.~ 6 4 3i 

[\> the United States Arsenal N. 81 W— 5 3 00 



58 Lincoln. 



From Watertown Meeting House to West Cambridge. 

Intermediate Summary, 

distances. 

M. F. R. M. F. R, 

To the Cross Road leading from 

Waltham Meeting House to 

the late Bird's now Bellows's 

Tavern 6 12 — 00 
To the crossing of the Concord 

Turnpike 1 2 4 — 2 16 
To West Cambridge Meeting 

House 1 7 17 — 3 7 33 

Bearing from Watertown Meeting House to West 
Cambridge Meeting House north, 28° east, 3 miles, 4 
furlongs and 4 rods. 



From Watertown Meeting House to Lincoln Meeting 
House passing by H r altham Meeting House. 

Intermediate Summary* 

distances. 

M. F. R. M. F. R. 

To the junetion with the Road 

leading from Waltham Meeting 

House to Bellows's Tavern 
To Gen. Coolidge's 
To Waltham Meeting House 
To Pond End in Waltham 
To Lincoln Meeting House 

Bearing from Watertown Meeting House to Lincoln; 
Meeting House north, 48° west, 7 miles, 2 furlongs andi 
4 rods. 



1 


1 


8—0 





00 





5 


14 — 1 


6 


22 


1 


4 


32—3 


3 


14 


1 


5 


— 5 





14, 


4 


2 


4 — 9 


2 


18 



Waltham. S9 

From Watertown Meeting House to Lincoln Meeting 
House passing by the late Dea, Brown's Farm. 

Intermediate Summary, 

distance*. 



M. F. R. M. F. R, 

To the Cross Road leading from 

Waltham to Bellows's Tavern 1 1 8—0 00 
To the cross by the late Dea. 



Brown's Farm 1 6 


36—3 





4 


To the Cross Road near Sher- 








man's Hill 1 


24—4 





28 


to the Mills on Stony Brook 2 


24—6 


1 


12 


To Lincoln Meeting House 2 


27—8 


1 


39 



From the Old State House to Waltham Meeting House 
through Cambridge and by the late Bird's now Bel- 
lows's Tavern. 



Intermediate Summary, 

distances. 



M. F. R. M. F. R. 

fo Bellows's Tavern (page 55) 5 10 — o o 00 
To the seat of John Heard, Jun. 

| Esq. 5 21—5 5 31 

To the Hon. H. G. Otis's Park 

Gate 1 2—5 6 38 

To the Park Gate of Nat. Amo- 

ry's seat (late Preble) 1 4 — 5 7 37 

po the Cross Road leading from 
Watertown to West Cambridge 
To General Coolidge's 
fo Waltham Meeting House 






2 28 — 6 


2 


25 


1 


3 27—7 


6 


12 


1 


4 32—9 


3 


4 



SO Waltham. 

From the Old State House to Waltham Plains and on to 
Semis's Tavern. 

Intermediate Summary. 

distance!* 



M. F. R. M. F. R 

To the eross by Watertown 

Bridge (page 55) 7 1 12 00 

To the Hon. Christopher Gore's 

Stables 1 

To Beaver Brook 

To the Boston Factory Store 
To Smith's Tavern 

To Bemis's Tavern 



From the Old State House to Waltham Meeting House 
through Waltham Plains, 

Intermediate Summary, 

distances. 



3 


18 8 


4 


30 


5 


24 9 


2 


14 


4 


28 9 


6 


37 


4 


32 — 10 


3 


29 


7 


9—11 


2 


38 



M. F. R. M. F. R. 

To the Cross Road on Waltham 

Plains branching oft* for the 

Meeting House 9 4 14 — 0*3 
To the Hon. T. Lyman's Park 

Gate 1 24—9 5 

To Waltham Meeting House 2 32 — 10 3C 



The roads to Waltham are generally in good repail 
with but few acclivities. The one through Waltham 
Plains has a great deal of travel, it being a leading 
road* to the west. Waltham Plains is a thickly settled 
portion of the town, situated on its south-east part, i; 



Waltham. 61 

nearly level, composed of a good soil and highly culti- 
vated ; it is about two miles and a half in length and one 
mile wide. These plains are bounded on Charles Riv- 
er southerly, on which are situated the Boston and Wal- 
tham Factories, the former whereof is considered the 
most extensive in the New England states and is in full 
operation, the latter, as is very common with specula- 
tions of this sort, seems rather depreciating. On these 
Plainsare situated the beautiful country seats of the Hon. 
Christopher Gore, late Governor of the commonwealth 
of Massachusetts and of the Hon. Theodore Lyman, 
Esqrs. The south-west part of the town is hilly and 
the soil coarse and rocky ; the north west against Lex- 
ington, is also broken and considerably woody. The 
hills are not very remarkable, some of them rise very 
abrupt but not to a great height ; Prospect Hill, about 
a mile north-west from the Meeting House, though only 
170 feet above the sea yet commands a full view of Bos- 
ton and a great part of the harbour and coast. 

The town is about 4£ miles long from east to west, 
ind 3£ miles from north to south, is bounded southerly 
)n Charles River which divides it from Newton, west- 
erly partly on Stony Brook and partly by a line which 
livides it from Weston, northerly on Liucoln and east- 
rly on Lexington and West Cambridge. 

Distance* 



M. F. R. 
bearing from the Old State 

House to the Rev. Mr. Rip* 

ley's Meeting House N. 7l£° W.— 9 9 

to the Boston Factory N. 77 W.— 9 4 

6 



62 



Newton — Wcdtham. 



From Waltham Meeting House to Newton. 



Intermediate 
distances. 



Summary. 



12—2 22 



6 — 2 1 28 



M. F. R. M. F. R. 

To Waltham Plains 4 16 — 00 

To Waltham Bridge 3 14—0 7 30 

To the Cross Road leading to Wa- 

tertown 1 

To the Gate leading to George 

Stearns' House 

To the Rev. Mr. Greenough's 

Meeting House 4 31 — 2 6 1 



Bearing from Waltham Meet- 
ing House to the Rev. Mr. 
Greenough's Meeting House 
To Weston, Rev. Mr. Field's 
To Concord Court House 
To Lexington Meeting House 
To Salem Town House 



Distanoes. 
M. F. ~R. 


S. 2°W. 2 


3 20 


S. 78 W. 3 


4 6 


N. 41 W. 7 


7 4 


N. 9 E. 4 


5 28 


N. 66 E.— 19 


1 24 



From the Old State House to Weston through Wal- 
tham. 



To Bemis's Tavern (page 59) 

To Stony Brook Bridge 

To the seat of the Hon. James 

Lloyd 
To Weston Meeting House 



Intermediate Summary, 
distances. 


M. F. 
11 2 


R. M. 

38 — 00 


F. R. 
00 


00 5 


15—12 


3 


00 2 


38—12 


3 1 


1 1 


37—13 


4 29 



To the Sudbury line near 

Flagg's Tavern 
To the Cross Road leading 

from Sudbury to Natick 



1 7 3—15 3 31 



7—17 38 



East Sudbury. 63 

f»Yoro the Old State House through the southerly part 
of Weston to East Sudbury by way of Newton. 



To Angier's Corner 

To the Rev. Mr. Greenough's 

Meeting House in Newton 
To the Guide Board 
To Weston Bridge 
To the Baptist Meeting House 

in Weston 
Fo the Natick line 
To the cross way on the Natick 

and Sudbury Road 1 6 18—16 6 



From the Old State House to East Sudbury through 
Weston by Flagg's Tavern. 

Intermediate Summary, 

distances. 



Intermediate 


Summary. 


distances. 






M. F. 


R. M. 


F. 


R. 


6 7 


16 





00 


2 2 


22 9 


1 


38 


3 


21 9 


5 


19 


1 2 


38»— 11 





17 


2 2 


34 — 13 


3 


11 


1 4 


16 — 14 


7 


27- 



M. F. R. M. F. R. 

To Flagg's Tavern in Weston 15 3 31—00 00 

To Dr. Haywood's O 6 17 — 16 2 8 
To East Sudbury Meeting 

House 1 4 9—17 6 17 
To the Bridge over Sudbury 

River 1 3 8—19 1 25 

To Lo veil's Tavern 3 15—19 5 00 



The old road to Worcester runs through the middle 
)f the town of Weston from Stony Brook to Flagg's 
Tavern which U tolerable straight, in good repair, a 



64 Weston — Lincoln. 

Httle hilly but hard bottom. The principal settlements 
are on the sides of this road. The cross roads are 
crooked and uneven. The soil is dry and healthy, from 
150 to 450 feet above the level of the sea, some part 
whereof is rocky with considerable wood. Not more 
than one half of the town is under cultivation. It is 
b\ miles in length and Si miles in breadth and is bound- 
ed northerly on Lincoln, easterly on Walt ham and New- 
ton, southerly on Needham and westerly on Natick and 
East Sudbury. 

Distances. 



M. F. R. 

Bearing from the Old State 

House to the Rev. Mr. Field's 

Meeting House N. 81* W.— 12 1 20 

To the Baptist Meeting House N. 89* W.— -12 2 28 
To the Methodist Meeting 

House N. 72 W — 12 3 8 



From the Rev. Mr, FieWs Meeting House in Weston to 
Lincoln, 

Intermediate Summary, 

distances 



To the Cross Road from Wal- 

tbam to Concord 2 6 10—0 00 

To Lincoln Meeting House 2 2 27 — 5 37 

Bearing from Rev. Mr. Field's Meeting House to 
Lincoln Meeting House north, 6* east, 4 miles, 2 far 
longs and 1 ro& 



Lexington, 65 

i 

fyom the Rev. Mr. FieWs Meeting Bouse in Weston 
to Lexington. 

Intermediate Summary* 

distances. 



M. F. R. M. F. R, 

To the cross by the Methodist 

i Meeting House 2 1 24 — 00 

To the crossing of the Concord 

i Turnpike 2 7 37 — 5 1 21 

To Lexington Meeting House 2 3 30 — 7 5 11 



Bearing from the Rev. Mr. 
Field's Meeting House to 



Distances. 
M. F. R. 



Lexington 


N. 


39| c 


E. 6 


5 


30 


To Concord Court House 


N. 


14£ 


W.— 6 


4 


1 


To Medford Meeting House 


N. 


74 


E. 9 


4 


28 


To Salem Town House 


N. 


&8 


E— 22 


5 


18 


To Dedham Court House 


S. 


30 


E. 9 


6 


30 



From the Old State House to Lexington over Cragie's 
Bridge and the Middlesex Turnpike. 

Intermediate Summary. 



To West Cambridge Meeting 
House (page 39) 

To Tufts's Tavern 

To the branching off of the Mid- 
dlesex Turnpike near Lock's 
Mills 

To Robbins's Tavern 

To Wheelock's Tavern 

To Lock's Tavern 

To. Lexington Meeting House 
*6 



distances. 






M. F. 


R. M. 


F. 


R. 


6 3 


10 





00 


5 


12 7 





22 


5 


4 7 


5 


26 


7 


33 S 


5 


19 


1 4 


9 — 10 


1 


28 


5 


36—10 


7 


24 


1 


25—11 


1 


9 



66 Lexington, 

The old road to Concord leads through the centre of 
this town and which is generally in good repair and not 
very troublesome as regards hills. 

The Concord Turnpike runs through the westerly 
part of the town and the Middlesex Turnpike crosses 
its south-east corner. The cross roads are crooked un- 
even and narrow. The face of the country is hilly, the 
soil coarse and the northern part of the town covered 
with wood, notwithstanding there are some good farms 
and extensive meadows on the branches of the Shaw- 
shee river, three of which take their rise in this town. 
About one half of the surface is under cultivation. 

There is a monument erected near the Meeting 
House in commemoration of the first revolutionary bat- 
tle, fought 19th April, 1775. 

The town is about 4£ miles by 4, and bounded easter- 
ly on Burlington and Woburn, southerly on West Cam- 
bridge, south-westerly on Waltham and north-westerly 
on Lincoln. 

Bearing from the Old State Honse to Lexington 
Meeting House north, 47i° west, 10 miles, 4 furlongs 
and 8 rods. 



distances. 






M. F. 


a. m. 


F. 


R. 


11 1 


9 — 00 





00 


1 1 


32 — 12 


3 


1 


1 


33 — 12 


4 


34. 



Bedford — Lincoln. $7 

From the Old State House to Bedford. 

\< Intermediate Summary^ 

? T\> Lexington Meeting House 

1 (page 65.) 

To Mr. Nathan Read's 

To Mr. Joseph Simons's House 

'To the road branching for Bil- 

1 leriea 1 4 2 — 14 36 

To the Road abutting for Bur- 
lington 3 36 — 14 4 31 

To the Rev. Mr. Stearns's 

Meeting House 5 20 — 15 2 12 

To the Tavern at the branch- 
ing of the roads to Concord 

and to Carlisle 2 18 — 15 4 30 

Bearing from the Old State House to Bedford, north 

45° west, 14 miles, 2 furlongs and 28 rods. 

From the Old State House to Lincoln by the late Bird's, 
now Bellows's Tavern and by the Hon. H. G. Otis's 
Seat and Sherman's HilL 

Intermediate Summary, 

distances. 



M. F. R. M. F. R. 

To Bellows's Tavern (page 55) 5 o 10 o o 00 

To the Hon. H. G. Otis's Seat 6 23 5 6 33 

To the abutment of the road 
from the Waltham road to the 

late Dea. Brown's 1 1 20 6 7 13 

To the cross by the late Dea. 

Brown's Farm 1 6 36« 8 7 9 

To the Cross Road near Sher- 
man's Hill 1 

To the Mills on Stony Brook 2 

To Lincoln Meeting Hous« 2 






24 9 


7 


33 





24—12 





17 





27—15 





4> 



id 


F. 


R, M. F. R. 


11 


7 


23—oo o oa 


1 


6 


8—13 5 31 



68 Lincoln — Lexington. 

From the Old State House to Lincoln over the Concord 
Turnpike. 

Intermediate Summary* 

distances. 

i 

To the road branching from 
Concord Turnpike to Lin- 
coln (page 69) 

To Lincoln Meeting House 

The old road leading to the town of Lincoln, for the 
last six miles, is crooked, narrow and hilly, little trav- 
elled on and much neglected. The roads within the 
limits of the town are generally uneven and in bad re- 
pair. The soil is coarse and rocky, a great portion 
whereof is covered with wood, and not more than one 
third of the town under culture. 

The ground whereon the Meeting House stands, round 
which are the principal settlements, is 470 feet above 
the sea. This town is about 5\ miles long and three 
miles wide, and bounded northerly on Concord, easterly 
on Bedford and Lexington, southerly on Waltham and 
Weston and westerly on East Sudbury. 

Bearing from the Old State House to Lincoln 
Meeting House north, 64£ west, 13 miles and 32 rods. 

From Lincoln Meeting House to Lexington Meeting 
House. 



To the Concord Turnpike 
To the branching from the Turn- 
pike 
To Benjamin's Mills 
To Lexington Road 
To Lexington Meeting House 



Intermediate 
distances. 


Summary. 


M. F. R. M. 

1 6 8—0 


F. R. 
00 


1 23—1 


1 31 


1 28—2 


1 19 


2 1 34—4 


3 13 


2 30—4 


6 3 



Concord. 



Distances. 



Bearing from Lincoln to Lex- 
ington Meeting House 
r© Salem Town House 
Fo Boston Light 
To Dedham Town House 



M. 


F. 


B. 


N".73£°E. 4 


1 


1 


S. 78 E.— 21 


3 


36 


S. 66 E.— 22 





19 


B. 21 E— 13 


1 


34 



From the Old State House to Concord through Cam- 
bridge and over the Concord Turnpike. 

Summary. 



Intermediate 

distances. 



M. 



ro the North-East corner of the 
College Yard <3 

To the Fresh Pond at Mr. Storer's 
Gateway 1 

Fo the Cross Road leading from 
West Cambridge to Water- 
town 1 

To the Road branching off for 
Lexington 

To Simons's Tavern 

To the Road leading from Lex- 
ington to Weston 

To the Road leading to Lincoln 

To the end of the Turnpike 

To Concord Court House 



R. 



) 00 



4, 36 4 6 30 



4 IS 6 3 



2 


6 


8 9 


1 


15 


1 


2 


2—10 


3 


17 





5 


10—11 





27 





6 


26—11 


7 


23 


3 


6 


13—15 


5 


36 


t 


3 


4—16 


1 


OG 



"0 Concord. 

From the Old State House to Concord through West 
Cambridge and Lexington. 

Intermediate Summary, 

distances. 



M. F. R. M. F. R 

To Lexington Meeting House 

(page 65) 11 1 9 00 

To the Cross Road leading to 

Bedford 1 2 36 — 12 4 5 
To the Cross Road leading from 

Lineoln to Bedford 2 32 — 14 4 37 

To Patch's Tavern 5 IS— 15 2 15 
To the Road from Concord to 

Bedford 1 9 16 2 24 

To the end of the Concord 

Turnpike 7 24—17 2 8 

To Concord Court House 3 4—17 5 12 



From the Old State House to Concord, through Wal- 
tham and by Bemis's Tavern, 



To Bemis's Tavern (page 59) 

To Hobbs's Tan Yard 

To the Union Hotel 

To Captain Percival's 

To Mr. Hayden^s 

To Waldron Pond 

To Concord Court House 

The compact part of Concord is near the centre of 
the town, and comprises a square or common, with four 
streets or outlets therefrom, whioh are thickly settled 



Intermediate Summary, 
distances. 


M. F. 
11 2 


R. M. 
38—00 


F. R. 

00 


1 1 


2 — 12 


3 30 


1 6 


14— -14 


2 4 


2 2 


20 — 16 


4 24 


5 


12—17 


1 36 


1 2 


35 — 18 


4 31 


1 7 


37—20 


4 28 



Concord. 71 

for about half a mile, with dwelling houses, stores of 
various descriptions, two good taverns, several board- 
ing houses, a court house and goal. 

The river runs from Sudbury through this town and 
pis joined by the north branch about half a mile north- 
west of the court house. These rivers run through a 
Vale in which there are some extensive meadows skirted 
i>y a rich upland which is under cultivation and highly 
decorated with fruit trees. The south part of the town 
igainst Lincoln, and the north part against Stow is 
'hilly and considerably wooded. There are three roads 
heading from Boston to Concord the nearest of which is 
the turnpike, but this is cut over such high aeclivities 
tasto be an objection to the travelling. The one through 
Waltham is too far west for Concord and is more in the 
line of Weston and Sudbury. That which runs through 
'Lexington is most travelled on and is altogether a good 
road and not very troublesome as to acclivities. 





t 




Distance** 


Bearing from the Old State 
House to Concord Cour 


M. 


F. 


Re 


House 


N. 58*° W.- 


—15 


7 


5 


From Concord Court House to 










Bedford 
To Lexington Meeting House 
To Woburn Meeting House 


N. 62 


E.- 


3 


6 


36 


S. 78 


E.- 


5 


7 


16 


N. 88 


E.- 


9 


4 


1 


(To Medford Meeting House 


S. 76 


E. 


— 11 


3 


38 


To Salem Town House 


N. 85 


E.- 


—23 





16 


■To Dedham Court House 


S. 23i 


E.. 


—16 


3 


25 


To Quiucy Meeting House 


S. 45 


E.- 


—21 


7. 


16 


(To Harvard University 


S. 56| 


E.- 


—12 


5 


7 



72 Bedford, 



From Concord Court House to Bedford Meeting House. 

Intermediate Summery, 

distances. 

M. F. R. M. F. R. 

To the branching from the Lex- 
ington Road 1 2 28—0 00 
To Bedford Meeting House 3 6 4—5 32 



From Concord Court House to Burlington Meeting 
House, 9 miles, 1 furlong and 32 rods. 



From Concord Court House to Woburn Meeting House> 
12 miles, 3 furlongs and 1 rod. 



From Concord Court House to Lincoln Meeting House. 
4 miles, i furlong and 37 rods. 



From Concord Court House to Nine Acre Corner. 



Intermediate Summary, 

distances. 



M. F. R. M. T. R 

To the road branching off in Con- 
cord Street 2 3—0 00 

To the Bridge 1 4 26—1 6 29 

To the Old Stow Road 7 33—2 6 22 

To the Bridge at Nine Acre Cor- 
ner 7 29—8 6 li 



Intermediate Summary, 
distances. 


M. F. 

1 7 


R. M. F. R. 

37 


\2 1 


20 4 1 17 


4 3 


24 8 5 1 



Natick. 73 



fyow Concord Court House through East Sudbury to 
Natick. 



ro VValtham Pond 

Fo the crossing the Road from 

Nine Acre Corner to Waltham 2 
Vo East Sudbury Meeting House 4 
ro the Old Road leading from 

Weston to Worcester 1 1 34 9 6 35 

ro the Old Road from Newton 
] to Worcester 2 

ro the Worcester Turnpike 1 
Po Natick Meeting House 1 

\> Natick Wheel Factory l 



This is an unpleasant road to travel and difficult for 
stranger to find, the country considerably broken, and 
artially cultivated. 

Distances. 






6—11 


7 


1 


5 


10—13 


4 


11 


3 


0—14 


7 


11 


7 


31—16 


7 


2 



tl - M. F. R. 

learing from Concord Court 
House to East Sudbury Meet- 
ing House S. iif« W. 6 5 l 

o Natick Meeting House S. 5^ W. — 12 ±o 

7 



Billerica — Burlington. 



o 



From the Old State House to the Billerica line over the 
Middlesex Turnpike, 



Intermediate Summary, 

distances. 



M. F. R. M. F. R, 

To the branching off from the 
Lexington Road near Lock's 
Mills (page 65) 7 5 26—00 00 

To the Tavern near Vine Brook 3 6 23—11 4 9 

To the Cross Road leading from 
Gieason's Mills to Burling- 
ton 2 1 32—13 6 i 

To Billerica line 4 24—14 2 23 

This part of the Middlesex Turnpike is laid out near- 
ly straight, but it passes through a dull woody country 
and even the road itself is out of repair, and in some 
cases formed of soft materials, its surface i§ uneven and 
the acclivities much impede the travelling. 



From the Old State House to Burlington through 
West Cambridge. 

Intermediate Summary, 

distances. 



M. F. R. M. F R. 

To the Tavern in West Cam- 
bridge near the Meeting 

House 6 2 27 00 

To the Charlestown and Wo- 
bum line at the head of Mys- 
tic Pond 2 1 4 8 3 31 

To Kendall's Mills 2 14 — 10 4 # 

To Burlington Post Office 2 6 18—13 2 23 



lf r obum — Wilmington — Burlington. 75 



rom the Old State House to Woburn and on to the 



Wilmington line. 



Intermediate Summary, 

distances. 



M. F. R. M. K R, 

o Medford Meeting House (p. 

36) 5 3 10 00 

o the branching oft* from the 

West Cambridge Road 
o Symmes's Corner 
o the Black Horse Tavern just 

within the Woburn line 
o Woburn Meeting House 
io the Cross Road leading to 
• Burlington 
v o Tay's Tavern 
o Wilmington line 
| 

mm the Old State House to Turlington through Wo- 
burn. 

Intermediate Summary, 

distances. 






3 


35 5 


7 


5 


1 


5 


30- — 7 


5 


35 





3 


2\ S 





19 


.2 


3 


11 — 10 


3 


30 





y 


38—11 


3 


29 


2 


i 


16—13 


5 


4 








18—13 


5 


22 



M. F. R. M. F. R. 

o Woburn Meeting House (see 

above) 10 3 30 — 00 00 

o Burlington Post Office 3 1 4—13 4 34 



These last three roads to Woburn and Burlington 
iss through a pleasant country, affording the traveller 

variety of prospect, some thickly settled and highly 
:corated tracts, while others seem to have escaped the 
4>tice of the cultivator. The roads are mostly in good 



76 Wobiirn — Stoneham, 

repair and but little troubled with hills. The one pass- 
ing through Medford and Woburn is most travelled, 
and is preferable to either of the others. Burlington 
was formerly a part of the town of Woburn, and was set 
off therefrom in the year 1799. Its situation is high 
and the country well wooded, about one fourth part of 
the soil under culture. It is bounded northerly on 
Wilmington and Billerica, westerly on Bedford, south- 
west on Lexington, southerly on Woburn and easterly 
on Woburn and Wilmington. 

Woburn is also considerable hilly, with some fine 
timber and wood growing thereon but not so elevated as 
Burlington. There are some good farms in this town 
and well cultivated; the soil whereof is generally dry 
and healthy, adapted principally for tillage. The Mid- 
dlesex canal runs through the whole length, and is a 
great acquisition to the landholders of this town. 

It is bounded northerly on Burlington and Wilming- 
ton, easterly on Reading, Stoneham and Medford, 
southerly on Medford and westerly on West Cambridge 
and Lexington. 

Distances. 



M. F. R. 

Bearing from the Old State 

House to Woburn N. 24>° W. 9 4 7 

To Burlington N. 29 W.~ 12 1 2 



From Woburn Meeting House to Stoneham Meeting 
House. 

Intermediate Summary, 

distances 



M. F. R. M. F. R\ 

To Hill's Factory 1 7 24—0 OC 

To Stoneham Meeting House 1 7 31—3 7 15 



Stoneham — Reading. 77 



From Woburn Meeting House to Stoneham Meeting 
House by Thaddeus Richardson's. 



Intermediate Summary, 

distances. 



Fo the Road branching to Thad- 



M. F. R. M. F. R. 



J deus Richardson's 1 7 28 — 00 

To Thaddeus Richardson's House 5 24 — 2 5 12 

fo the Andover Turnpike 6 20 — 3 3 32 

fo Stoneham Meeting House 3 6 — 3 6 38 



[From Woburn Meeting House to Reading Meeting 
House. 

I 

.j 

Intermediate Summary, 

distances. 



M. F. R. M. F. R. 

ro the Road branching to Thad- 
deus Richardson's 1 7 28 — 00 
o the Eastern School House 2 4 — 2 1 32 
o the Road leading to Robert 
Ames's Mills 4 22 — 2 6 14 

*o the cross by E. Wesson in 

Reading 1 8—3 6 22 

?o the cross by the School House 2 — 4 22 

\> the Reading Meeting House 

at Wood End 6 17—4 6 39 

*7 



~8 Reading — Woburn 



e 



From Woburn Meeting House to South Beading MeeU 
ing House. 



Intermediate . Summary 
distances. 



M. F. R. 



4 28—2 4 


16 


1 27—^3 5 


3 


1 5 24 — 5 2 


27 



To the Road branching to Thad- 

deus Richardson's 1 7 28 — 00 

To the Road branching off for 

Andover Turnpike 
To Andover Turnpike 
To South Reading Meeting House 1 

From the Black Horse Tavern in Woburn to Reading 
Meeting House. 

Intermediate Summary, 

distances. 

; M. F. R. M. F. R. 

To the Road leading to Stoneham 1 2 32 — 00 

To the Cross Road by Hill's Fac- 
tory 6 36—2 1 28 

To the junction with the Road 
from Woburn Meeting House 

to Reading 5 8 — 2 6 36 

To the Road branching off for 

Thaddeus Richardson's 3 1 — 3 1 37 

To Reading Meeting House 2 7 11 — 6 1 8 

From the Black Horse Tavern over the Stoneham Road 
and the Andover Turnpike. 



To the Stoneham Road 
To the Andover Turnpike 
To the late Hayes's Tavern 
To Reading Meeting House 



Intermediate 
distances. 


Summary. 


M. F. R. M. 
1 2 32—0 


F. R: 
00 


1 7 6—3 


1 38 


6 38 — * 


36 


2 5 34—6 


6 30 



Maiden. 



From the Old Stats House to Maiden. 



Intermediate Summary. 

distances. 



M. F. R. M. F. R, 

T© the Tavern on Charlestown 

' Neck 2 l 18 — o o oo 

To the north end of Maiden 

| Bridge 3 36 — 2 5 14 

fio the Road branching off from 

\ the Nevvburyport Turnpike 6 4 — 3 3 18 

To Maiden Meeting House 1 6 38 — 5 2 1G 

To the entrance to the Maiden 

Dye House and Nail Factory 1 24 — 5 4 6 



The southern part of Maiden is low and contains 
about a thousand acres of salt marsh. The upland in 
general is good and clear from woods. 

The northern part of the town is more uneven and 
rocky with considerable tracts of woodland. The maia 
roads are kept in good repair, and are not much in- 
commoded with acclivities. The cross roads are crook- 
ed and narrow, but still they are a fair sample of roads 
iof that description in general. 

The settlements are scattered nearly over the whole 
extent of the town, which is about 5 miles by s) a and is 
bounded northerly on Stoneham and South Reading, 
easterly on Chelsea, southerly on Mystic River and 
westerly on Medford and Stoneham. 

Bearing from the Old State House to Maiden 
Meeting House north, 1° west, 4 miles, 5 furlongs and 
30 rods. 



80 Stoneham. 

From the Old State House to Stoneham through Med- 



To Medford Hole] (page 36) 
To the Seat of Asher Adams, 

Esq. 
To Spot Pond 
To Stoneham Meeting House 



From the Old State House to Stoneham through Med- 
ford and over the Old Road. 

Intermediate Summary, 

distances. 



ir Turnpike. 




Intermediate 
distances. 


Summary. 


M. F. R. M. 

4 7 50—0 


F. R. 
00 


7 24—5 


7 4 


1 3 36—7 


3 


2 8 — 9 


3 8 



TVf K R. M V R. 

To Medford Hotel 4 7* 20 00 

To the branching of the Stone- 
ham Road 4 29 5 4 9 

To the Road leading to Maiden 
at the north part of Spot 
Pond S 7 31 9 4 

To Stoneham Meeting House 1 3 — 32 — 10 7 32 



From the Old State House to Stoneham through Mai- 
den. 

Intermediate Summary* 

distanees. 



M. F. R. M. F. R. 

To Maiden Meeting House (p. 

79) 5 2 16 00 

To Stoneham Meeting House 5 o 3% — 10 3 12 



Reading. 8 L 



l o 



The surface of Stoneham is uneven, rocky and wood- 
id, with some intervals of cultivated soil. The roads 
eading thereto are narrow, crooked and uneven, except 
he Andover Turnpike, this runs through the whole 
ength of the town, which is 3f miles, its breadth about 
1-| mile, and bounded north on Reading, east on South 
leading and Maiden, south on Medio rd and west on 
Woburn. 

1 Bearing from the Old State House to Stoneham Meet- 
ing House north, 6° west, 8 miles, 4 furlongs and 35 
•ods. 



From the Old State House to Reading through Medford 
and over the Andover Turnpike. 



To Medford Hotel (page 36) 
To the seat of Asher Adams, 

Esq. 
Io Spot Pond 
To the Tavern (late Hayes's 

Tavern) 2 6 8—10 1 

To the Meeting House in Read- 



Intermediate 


Summary. 


distances. 








M. 


F. 


R. 


M. 


F. 


R. 


4 


7 


20— 


-0 





00 





7 


24 — 


-5 


7 


4 


1 


3 


36— 


-7 


3 






ing at Wood End 2 5 34— U 



The first six miles of this road passes through a 
pleasant and thick settled country, when it enters a 
woody tract through which it continues to Spot Pond 
jand about a mile north thereof, when the country be- 
comes more open and cultivated. The last five miles 
are little blended with acclivities but of easy ascent. 



8 -2 Reading. 

There is one toll on the Andover and half a toll on the 
Medford Turnpike. 

Bearing from the Old State House to the Meet- 
ing House at Wood End in Reading north, 4f west, 11 
miles,^6 furlongs and 18 rods. 

From the Old State House to South Reading through 
Maiden. 

Intermediate Summary, 

distances. 



M. F. R. M. F. R. 

To Maiden Meeting House (p. 

79.) d 2 16—0 00 

To the Dye House and Nail Fac- 
tory Road 1 24 5 4 

To the Road leading from Stone- 
ham to Salem 2 7 35 8 3 35 

To Hale's Tavern at South Rea- 
ding 2 6 24 — 11 2 19 

To South Reading Meeting House 36—11 3 ±5 

This road generally speaking is kept in good repair 
and is formed of good materials; it passes through a 
variety of soils, some fertile and highly cultivated, oth- 
ers coarse and barren ; it hath but few acclivities, and on 
the whole presents an agreeable prospect to the travel- 
ler. There is a toll at Maiden Bridge and at Charles- 
town Bridge. 

Distances. 
M. F. R. 

The course from the Old State 

House to South Reading 

Meeting House is to the Rev. 

Mr. Emerson's N. 2° E.— 10 3 30 

Rev. Mr. Davis's JV. 3 E — 10 3 2Q 



topsfield. 83 

From South Reading Meeting House to North Reading 
passing east of Reading Pond. 

Intermediate Summary. 

I distances. 



M. F. R. M. F. R; 

To Mr. Derby's Seat 6 l— o 0© 
To the Cross Road leading to 

Salem 3 15—1 1 16 
To Reading Meeting House at 

Wood End 13 14 — 2 4 3© 



From South Reading Meeting House to North Reading 
I passing west of the Pond, 2 miles, 3 furlongs and 36 
] rods. 
< 

From the Old State House to Topsfield Hotel over the 
Newburyport Turnpike. 

Intermediate Summary, 

distances. 



M. F. R. M. F. R. 

To the North Eud of Maiden 

Bridge 2 5 14 00 

To the Road leading from Mai- 
den to Salem 3 5 31 6 3 5 

fo the first Toll House 1 3 27 7 6 S3 

(To Saugus River 2 3 14 — 10 2 6 

To Lynnfield Hotel 2 2 3 — 12 4 9 

To the second Toll Gate at the 
Cross Road leading from Lynn- 
field to Danvers 2 5 7 — 15 1 16 

To crossing the Salem and Ando* 

ver Turnpike 1 o 1—16 1 i7 



S4 Saugus. 



© 



Intermediate Summary, 

distances. 






17—17 


3 39 


3 


12 — 19 


11 


5 


4—20 


4 15 





32—21 


6 33 



M. F. R. M. F. R. 

To the Road to Dauvers Plain o 1 13—16 2 30 

To the Road leading to Captain 

Peabody's House 1 32—17 3 22 

To the Road leading to N. Jnger- 
soll's House 

To the Old Middleton Road 1 

To the Road leading from Tops- 
field to Salem 1 

ToTopsfield Hotel 1 



This part of the Newburyport Turnpike seems rath- 
er injudiciously laid out, as it has many unnecessary 
angles, and its course is too far west for Boston. More 
than a mile might have been shortened, many hills 
avoided, and much expense spared by carrying the route 
so far east as to have fallen in with the Salem Turn- 
pike somewhere between Lynn and Boston. 



From the Old State House to Saugus Meeting House. 

Intermediate Summary, 

distances. 



M. F. R. M. F. R. 

To the north end of Maiden 
Bridge 2 5 14 00 

To the branching from Newbury- 
port Turnpike 2 2 31 5 5 

To Mr. Ballard's House in Sau- 
gus 4 1 9 6 

To the Road branching off for 

Saugus 33 9 39 

To Saugus Meeting House 1 1 16—10 2 16 



Lynn. 85 

Saugus was formerly a part of Lynn and was set off 
therefrom in the year 1815. A river of the same name 
runs through the town, the serpentine course of which 
has a very picturesque appearance from the adjoining 
eminences, and on its banks are some fertile meadows. 

The southern part of this town is altogether salt 
marsh, of which there is about 1500 acres, the remain- 
der, except on the banks of the river, is broken and rocky 
and a great portion of woodland, notwithstanding there 
are some cultivated farms in the intervale. The roads 
ire crooked and narrow generally speaking. The New- 
buryport Turnpike runs through the westerly part of 
the town. Bounded north on Lynnfield, east on Lynn, 
south and west on Chelsea. 

[j Bearing from the Old State House to Saugus Meet- 
ing House norih, 2±\° east, 7 miles, 7 furlongs and 5 
•ods. 
'I 

From the Old State House to Lynn Hotel over the Salem 
Turnpike. 

Intermediate Summary, 

distances. 



M. F. R. M. F. R. 

o Charlestown Square 1 38 — 00 

Jlo the beginning of Chelsea 

Bridge 5 39—1 6 37 

o the further end of Chelsea 

Bridge 5 20 — 2 4 17 

'o the Cross Road leading to 

Chelsea 2 30—4—5 7 

m the Rev. Mr. Tuckerman's 
I House 

o the Halfway House 
To Lynn Hotel 

8 






4 


32—5 


1 


39 


1 


7 


38—7 


1 


37 


2 





18— 


2 


15 



S6 Lynn. 



From the Old State House to Lynn over Maiden Bridge 
and the Old Road. 

Intermediate Summary, 

distances. 



M. F. R. M. F. R. 

To Mr. Ballard's in Saugus (p. 

84) 9 O 6 O 00 

To Saugus Mills o 3 10 9 3 16 

To the Cross Road leading to 

Lynn Hotel 1 1 31—10 5 7 

To Lynn Hotel 1 33—10 7 



On the south-west part of the town of Lynn there is 
about 700 acres of salt marsh, on the borders whereof, 
and on the bay is a tract of upland, nearly level, about 
two miles and a half long, and half a mile in breadth, on 
this plain the most compact settlements of the town are 
comprised. The dwelling houses are scattered at 
about 8 or 10 rods apart over the extent of this plain, 
and there is also a bank and some stores within the 
same. The inhabitants are principally employed in 
making shoes, the traffic of which is carried to a consid- 
erable extent. North and east of the plain, the country 
suddenly becomes broken, rocky and woody, rising ab- 
ruptly and in some places almost perpendicularly to a 
height of from fifty to one hundred and fifty feet. The 
roads are good, generally kept in repair, and nearly free 
from acclivities. The Salem Turnpike runs through 
this town, and at the Lynn Hotel is the junction with 
the Marblehead road to Boston. Bounded south on the 
coast, west on Saugus, north on Lynnfield and «ast on 
Danvers and Salem. 



Lynnfield. 87 

Distances. 



m. jr. «. 

Bearing from the Old State 

House to Lynn Hotel N. 39 i° E.— 8 3 32 

To the Eastern Meeting House N. 44| E. — 9 5 7 



From Lynn Hotel to Lynnfield Meeting House. 

Intermediate Summary, 

distances. 



M. F. R. M. F. R. 

To the Road branching for Sau- 

gus Meeting House 2 2 24—0 00 

To Newburyport Turnpike 1 1 28 — 3 4 12 

To the Road from Lynnfield Ho- 
tel to Reading 1 7 2 — 5 3 14 

To Lynnfield Meeting House 2 1 20 — 7 4 34 



! 

From Lynn Hotel to Lynnfield Hotel. 



Intermediate Summary, 

distances. 



M. F. R. M. F. R. 

To the Road near Hall's Dye 

House 2 4 — 00 

To Lynnfield Hotel 3 4 28 — 5 4 32 

j Bearing from Lynn Hotel to Lynnfield Meeting 
iHouse north, 29° west, 6 miles, 6 furlongs and 28 rods, 



88 Nahant. 

From the Old State House to Nahant. 

Intermediate Summary, 

distances. 



M. F. R. M. F. R. 

To Lynn Hotel (page 85) 9 2 15 — oo G 00 

To the Road turning to the 

Beach 1 7 1 — 11 1 16 

To the beginning of Long Beaeh 1 31 — 11 3 7 

Length of Long Beach 1 3 10 — 12 6 17 

To the Road leading to the Meet- 
ing House opposite Rouliard's 

Hotel 2 1 2--14 7 19 



To Nahant by Water. 

Intermediate Summary, 

distances. 



M. F. R. M. F. R. 

FronCRowe's Wharf to Shirley 

Gut 4 3 15 00 

To the landing on Nahant near 

Rouliard's House 5 4 7 9 7 22 

To Rouliard's House 1 4—10 26 

Bearing from Rowe's Wharf to Rouiliard's at Nahant 
north, 67° east, 8 miles, 3 furlongs and 3 reds. 



Nahant appears as though it had once been two 
islands, but is now a peninsula, connected to the main 
land by two ridges of pebbles and sand thrown up by the 
water, the first whereof is near a mile and a half in 
length and about 15 rods wide, this leads to the little 
island, which is 50 rods by 80 and riseth 80 feet above 
the sea, then comes what is called the Short Beach, 



Nahant. 89 

which is about 90 rods in length and connects it with the 
great or Nahant Island. 

This island brancheth in two ridges from the Short 
Beach, one running south-east by east little more than 
a. mile and rising 160 feet above the sea. On the 
southern side of this ridge there are seven dwelling 
Jiouses, all of which are either taverns or boarding 
houses for the accommodation of visitants. On the 
eastern declivity of the ridge there is a country seat be- 
longing to the Hon. Thomas H. Perkins, Esq. and a 
small stone building used for the double purpose of a 
school and meeting house. 

The other ridge runs south-east from the Short Beach 
about one third of a mile, it riseth 125 feet above the 
sea and hath one dwelling house thereon built for and 
used as a hotel. Between these ridges there is an inter- 
vale of fen land and a pond. 

The ride over the beach when the tide is out is de- 
lightfully pleasant, the sand thereon is nearly level and 
so compressed as scarcely to leave the trace of a horse 
-visible ; but when the tide is up, the travelling over the 
pebbles is heavy and troublesome. 

, The features of the islands are broken, the base a bed 
pf senite rock, with bold, ragged and in some places in- 
accessible cliffs against the sea ; the soil thin and most- 
ly dry pasture* 

This place hath within a few years become a fashion- 
able retreat in hot seasons. The air is fragrant and 
cooling, the country romantic, the walks round the 
(imargin of the cliffs agreeably pleasant and the prospect 
sublimely grand. 
*8 



90 Salem, 

From the Old State House to Salem over the Turnpike 





Intermediate Summary, 
distances. 




M. F. R. M. F. R, 


To Lynn Hotel (page 85) 


9 2 15—00 00 


To the Float Bridge 


1 7 36—11 2 6 


To the Gateway leading to the 




Spring Hotel 


1 27—11 3 33 


To the Toll Gate 


1 7 11 13 1 4 


To Salem Head 


6 24—13 7 28 


To the Essex Coffee House 


5 28—14 7 21 



From the Old State House to Salem over Maiden Bridge 
and the Old Road. 



Intermediate Summary 

distances. 



To the Tavern on Charlestons 

Neck 2 1 18 00 

To the north end of Maiden 

Bridge 3 36 2 5 14 

To the branching off of the Sa- 
lem Road from the Newbury- 

port Turnpike 2 2 31 5 5 

To Mr. Ballard's House in Sau- 

gus 
To Saugus Mills 
To the Cross Road opposite to 

Lynn Hotel 
To Hall's Dye House 
To Salem, Lynn and Danvers line 
To the Gate leading to (he 

Spring Hotel 
To Danvers Town 
To Salem Head 
To the Essex Coffee House 



4 





1 9 





6 





3 


10 9 


3 


16 


1 


1 


31—10 


5 


i 


1 


7 


7—12 


4 


14 





5 


28 — 13 


2 


5 





2 


6—13 


5 


a 


2 


5 


8—16 


2 


16 


1 





7—17 


2 


23 





5 


28—18 





11 



Beverly — Salem. 9i 

From the Old State House to Beverly. 



To the Essex Coffee House (p. 

90) 
To Essex Bridge 
Length of the Bridge 



Intermediate Summary, 
distances. 


A. F. 


K. M. 


F. R. 


14- 7 


21 — 00 


00 


1 2 


18 — 16 


1 39 


2 


li— 16 


4 10 


4 


16—17 


26 


1 


52—17 


2 18 



Fo the Beverly Bank 

l"o the Gloucester Road 



The compact part of the town of Salem is about one 
mile and a half in length and half* a mile in width, 
which is laid out into spacious and regular streets, with 
extensive and lofty buildings for stores, warehouses, 
dwelling houses, &c. on either side; it hath the har- 
bour south and the North River northerly, this was 
once the New England depot of the East India trade 
and there are now many merchants of the highest stand- 
ing still connected in that honourable establishment re- 
siding in this town. 

There are two necks of land stretching from this com- 
pact part, one running N. N. E. towards Beverly, which 
is laid out into streets and fast increasing with settle- 
ments. The other runs E. N. E. about a mile and a 
iquarter, is called Salem Neck, about a quarter of a mile 
in width, and is principally a dry, rocky soil. On this 
neck are built the work-house, hospital and two forts. 
Salem Harbour is difficult in its entrance, with shoal 
| water as you approach the wharves. 

There is a strip northerly of the North River, called 
North Fields or $orth Salem, about a mile and a halt 



92 Salem. 

in length and half a mile wide, which is laid out in 
streets and lots and is fast settling. On the south there 
is another very considerable settlement called South 
Fields or South Salem, which lies on the westerly banks 
of the Harbour; as also from Salem head there is one 
continued and connected street with Danvers. 

The part of this town lying west of the turnpike is 
broken and rocky, the soil barren and uncultivated, with 
the exception of a few small spots of intervale. In this 
tract lies the Spring Pond, nearly the whole whereof, 
with the Mineral Spring and Bath Houses, are within 
the line of this town, but the Spring Hotel stands in 
Lynn. The surface east of the Salem Turnpike is also 
uneven and rocky, but some parts whereof, particularly 
towards the coast, is under culture. 

The principal road from Boston to Salem is the turn- 
pike, the first nine miles whereof is beautifully level, 
passing through a highly cultivated country, and rich 
marshes, in the towns of Chelsea, Saugus and Lynn, 
then the country becomes broken, and notwithstanding 
the labour and expense the projectors were at in cutting 
through the acclivities and filling up the hollows, yet 
there are some hills over about two miles of this road, 
which are an impediment to the .ravelling; after which 
it is nearly level to Salem. The road is of a good 
width, very judiciously laid out, and in point of repair 
inferior to none. There are two bridge and one road 
toll from Boston to Salem and one bridge toll from Sa- 
lem to Beverly. The old Salem road is a good county 
road, though not much used as a route from Boston to 
Salem, yet a part whereof is considerably travelled on 
from towns west of Boston. 

Bounded north on Beverly shore and on the inlets 



Marblehead. 93 

rom (lie harbour, east on Marblehead shore and includ- 
ing all the islands in the harbojjr as far as Baker's 
fsland, south on Lynn and west on Danvers. 

i 

Distanoe** 



Searing from the Old State 

8 House to Salem Market 

1 House N. 4ix° E.— 13 5 20 

[Vo Beverly Lower Meeting 

House N. 40 E.— 15 2 

f fo Danvers Lower Meeting 

House N. 35 E— 13 2 9 

7 rom the Essex Coffee House in Salem to Marblehead 

Intermediate Summary, 

distances. 



M. F. R. M. F. R, 

to E. H. Derby's Esq. 7 7—0 00 

To the Mills on Forest River i 4 29—2 3 36 

o the junction with the Lynn 

Road 6 11—3 2 7 

fo the Stage Tavern in Marble- 

1 head 1 4 6 — 4 6 13 

■■ 

\From E. H Derby's Esq. House to the Lynn Road by 
Pickman's Farm. 



Intermediate Summary, 

distances 



M. F. R. M. F. R. 

1*0 the branching of (he Road 

from Marblehead Road 1 23—0 00 

|o Mr. Pickman's Farm House 7 14—1 37 

X'o the Lynn Road 5 38—1 6 35 



^ 6 Lynnfield — Reading. 

From the Essex Coffee House in Salem to Lynnfield 
Hotel 

Intermediate Summary. 

distances. 

m! F. R. M. F. I 
To the branching of the Lynn- 
field Road from the Old Sa- 
lem Road 2 7 15-0 « 
To Lynnfield Hotel 3 2 26—6 2 



From Essex Coffee House in Salem to Reading. 

Intermediate Summary 



To the Lynnfield Hotel 

To the Mills on Saugus River 

To the New Road branching 

from South Reading Road 
To the Lynnfield Road 
To the head of Reading Pond 
To the Meeting House at Wood 

End 1 3 14—11 6 



From the Essex Coffee House in Salem to South Rea- 
ding, 

Intermediate Summary 

distances. 

M. F. R. M. F. I 

To the New Road leading to 

Reading 8 6 18 

To the Rev Mr. Davis's Meet. 

ing House 1 24 9 7 

To the Rev. Mr. Emerson's 

Meeting House © 2 20—10 1 % 



distances. 






M. F. 
6 2 


R. M. 
1 


F. 



B 
0< 


1 6 


21 8 





2 


5 


36 8 


6 


1 


6 


31 9 


5 




5 


24—10 


2 


3 



Lynnfield— Medford. 95 

»o?w the Essex Street Coffee House in Salem to Lynn- 
field, 

, Intermediate Summary. 

distances. 



M. F. R. M. 

To Danvers Lower Meeting House 1 7 36 — 


F. 




R. 

00 


To the Sun Tavern in Danvers 3 33 — 2 


3 


28 


Vo Mr. Proctor's House 7 ±2 — 3 


3 





To Newburyport Turnpike 1 6 36 — 5 
Vo Lynnfield Meeting House 2 6 19 — 8 


1 




36 
15 


From the Essex Coffee House in Salem to Medford 


through Maiden. 






Intermediate Summary, 
distances. 


M. E R. M. 

To the Lynn Hotel 5 5 6 o 


F. 



R. 
00 


To the branching of the Maiden 






Road from the Old Salem 






Road 4 22 9 


5 


28 


To the crossing of the Newbury- 






port Turnpike 7 16 — 10 
To the crossing Maiden Street 1 5 4 — 12 


5 

2 


4 

8 


To Medford Hotel 2 4 33—14 


7 


1 


Distances. 


M. 

Bearing from the Salem Town 


F. 


R. 


House to Lynnfield Hotel N. 88° W. 5 


3 


1 


To Topsfield Hotel * N. 9 W. 8 

To Reading Meeting House N. 81£ W. — 10 


a 

2 


4 

8 


To South Reading Meeting H. \V. 8 


6 


16 


To Boston Light S. 3^ W.—13 


4 


4 


To Dedham Court House S. 45 W.— 23 


3 


12 


To Ipswich Court House N. 22% E.—- 11 


2 


20 


To Spring Pond Hotel S. 59^ W. 3 


1 


32 



96 Marblehead. 

From the Essex Coffee House to tlie Spring Pond Hotel 
over the Turnpike 

Intermediate Summary, 

distances. 



M. F. R. M. F. R. 

To the Gateway leading from the 

Turnpike 3 3 23—0 00 

To the Spring Hotel 4 26—4 9 



From the Essex Coffee House in Salem to Spring Pond 
Hotel over the Turnpike. 

Intermediate Summary. 

distances. 

M. F. R. M. F. R k 

To the Gateway leading from 

the Old Boston Road 4 3 3—0 

To Spring Hotel 6 4—3 1 7 



From the Old State House to Marblehead over the 
Northern Road. 

Intermediate Summary, 

distances. 



M. F. R. M. F. R. 

To Lynn Hotel (page 85) 9 2 15 00 

To the Corner Store at the Cross 
Road near the Eastern Meet- 
ing House in Lynn 1 5 8 — 10 7 23 

To the line dividing Lynn and 

Salem 2 2 — 12 7 25 

To the Cross Road leading to 

South Fields 7 15 — 13 7 

To the junction of the Road lead- 
ing from Lynn by Phillips's 

Point A 3 14—14 2 14 



Marblehead. 97 

Intermediate Summary, 

distances. 



M. F. R. M. F. R, 

To the junction of the Salem 

[ Road 4 36 — 15 10 

To the Marblehead Bank 1 2 29 — 16 1 39 

To the Sun Tavern in Marble- 
head 1 17 — 16 3 16 

To Marblehead Lower Meeting 

House 1 31 — 16 5 7 



From the Old State House to Marblehead over the 
Road by Phillips' 's Point. 

Intermediate Summary, 

distances. 



M. F. R. M. F. R. 

To Lynn Hotel 9 2 15 GO 

To the Road leading to Nahant 1 7 1 — 11 1 16 
To King's Beach 1 1 4—12 2 20 
To the Road leading to Phil- 
lips's Point 1 2 30 — 13 5 10 
To the junction with the North- 
ern Road 2 1—15 5 11 
To the Sun Tavern in Marble- 
head 2 1 2— 17 6 18 



Marblehead is a neck of land running into the sea of 
about 3 i miles in length and little more than a mile in 
width. The compact settlements whereof is composed 
of a long and narrow space, in which there is one main 
street about a mile in length, with some short branches 
therefrom to the harbour. The principal trade carried 
9 



as Newton. 

on here is fishing, and that mostly from the banks of 
Newfoundland. There is one tavern, a bank and many 
respectable dwelling houses and stores in this town 
and a fort at the eastern point. The harbour is small, 
rather difficult of access, but of a depth of water suffi- 
cient to admit ships of the largest class. The surface 
is rocky and uneven, with a bold, craggy cliff against the 
sea. 

Bearing from Boston to the Eastern Meeting House 
north, 51* • east, 14 miles, 2 furlongs and 30 rods. 



From the Old State House to Newton and on to 
Lower Falls. 

Intermediate Summary, 

distances. 



M. F. R. M. F. R. 

To Brighton Meeting House (p. 

53) 5 1 6 00 

To the Guide Board at the foot 

of the Hill 6 15 5 7 21 

To Angier's Corner 7 35 6 7 16 

To the Road branching off to 

Gen. Hull's 1 1 32 8 1 8 

To the Rev. Mr.- Greenough's 

Meeting House 1 30 9 1 38 

To Mr. Joseph Jackson's 1 2 26—10 4 24 

To the Tavern at Lower Falls o 5 10—11 1 3* 
To the Centre of the Bridge at 

Lower Falls o 3 3—11 4 3: 



Newton is an extensive town, two sides whereof is en- 
circled by the great bow of Charles River, with settle- 



Newton. 9 a 

merits over its whole territory, but the most compact one 
near the Rev. Mr. Greenough's Meeting House, the 
Rev. Mr. Homer's Meeting House and at the Lower 
Falls. There are some good meadows on the hanks of 
Charles River, though not very extensive. 

The upland is hilly, with about one half its surface 
covered with wood. There are some intervales of good 
land throughout the town, particularly towards the 
north-east part, where there are considerable tracts of 
highly cultivated land and lying nearly on a plain. 
The principal leading roads are generally good, but 
some of the cross roads are hilly, narrow and much ne- 
glected. The town is bounded north and west on 
bharles River, from Dedham to Watertown, a distance 
«f 14 miles, which divides it from Needham, Weston, 
-Waltham and Watertown, east on Brighton, north on 
Brookline, east again on Brookliue, south on Roxhury 
land Dedham. Extreme length 6^ miles, width 5 miles. 

ji Distances. 

m. f. a. 
Bearing from the Old State 

House to Angier's Corner S. 89l° W. 6 3 23 

To the Rev. Mr. Greenough's 

Meeting House S. 87 W. 8 4 30 

lTo the Rev. Mr. Homer's Meet- 

| ing House S. 81f W. 7 20 

To the Rev. Mr. Grafton's 

i Meeting House S. 77$ W 7 4 25 

To the Episcopal Church S. 83 W.~~ io 2 28 

i 

■ 

i 



10© Newton — Brighton. 

From Angier's Corner in Netvion to the late TVoodbit- 
ry's Tavern in Newton. 





Intermediate 


Summary. 




M. 


distances. 






F. 


R. M. 


F. R 


To Mrs. Hastings's House 





4 


36—0 


00 


To Mrs. Blakely's House 





2 


18 — 


7 14 


To the Road leading to General 










Hull's 





2 


22—1 


1 36 


To the Rev. Mr. Homer's Meet- 










ing House 





3 


26—1 


5 22 


To the Baptist Meeting House 





5 


22—2 


8 4 


To the late Woodbury's Tavern 










on the Wercester Turnpike 





4 


20—2 


7 24 



From the Rev. Mr. Homer's Meeting House in Newton 
to Brighton passing by John Kendrick's and under 
Haven's and Wiggin's Houses, 



To the Road branching from An- 

gier's Comer Road 
To the next crossway 
To Mr. Kendrick's House 
To the Guide Board 
To the Guide Board at the foot 

of the Hill 
To Brighton Meeting House 



Intermediate 
distances. 


Summary. 


M. F. R. M. 


F. R. 


2 8—0 


00 


4 7—0 


6 15 


3 26—1 


2 1 


2 0—1 


4 1 


5 20—2 


1 21 


6 ±5—2 


7 36 



Brighton— Roxbury. 104 

From the Rev. Mr, Homer's Meeting House to Brighton 
passing jover Brighton Plains. 

Intermediate Summary* 

distances - 



M. F. R, M. F. R, 

To the Road leading to Mr. Ken- 

drick's 6 15—0 00 
To the Road leading to Rich- 

ards's Tavern 2 13 — 1 27 

To Brighton Meeting House 1 7 36 — 3 23 



FromtheRev. Mr. Homer's Meeting House to Richards 's 
Tavern, 2 miles, 5 furlongs and 1 rod. 

i 

I 
(- 

From the centre of the Bridge at Newton Lower Falls 
to Spring Street in the Town of Roxbury. 

Intermediate Summary, 

distances. 



M. F. R. M. F. R. 

To the branching off from the 

Boston Road 5 12 — 00 
(To the crossing of the Worcester 

! Turnpike 1 2 10 — 1 7 22 

fTo the Cross Road leading to Ja- 
maica Plains from Needham 2 32 — * 14* 
'o the Cross Road leading to 
Spring Street 1 12—5 26 
To the Rev. Mr. Bradford's 
Meeting House 1 5 6—6 5 32 
*9 



102 Needham. 

Frow the Rev. Mr. Homer's Meeting House to the Tav- 
ern at the Lower Falls. 

Intermediate Summary, 

distances. 



M. F. R. M. F. R, 

To the Road to Newton Main 

Road 1 5 24 — o 00 

To the Tavern at the Lower Falls 1 7 20 — 3 5 4 



From the Old State House to Needham over the Wor- 
cester Turnpike. 

Intermediate Summary, 

distances. 



M. F. R. M. F. R. 

To Richards's Tavern (page 51) 6 2 2<d 

To the late Woodbury's Tavern 2 2 16 8 5 5 

To Newton Upper Falls 1 16—9 5 21 
To the junction with the Old 
Roads leading to Boston by the 
Lower Falls 2 3 14—12 35 
To the Rev. Mr. Noyes's Meet- 
ins House in Needham 1 4 38 — 13 5 33 



From the Old State House to Needham through New- 
ton and by the Lower Falls. 

Intermediate Summary, 

distances. 



M. F. R, M. F. R. 

To NewtonjLower Falls (page 

98) 11 4 37—00 

To the crossing of the Worces- 
ter Turnpike 1 2 11—12 7 8 

To the Rev. Mr. Noyes's Meet- 
ing House 1 4 38—14 4 & 



Natick. 103 

The soil of Need ham is coarse, with a great propor- 
tion of woodland, the roads are thick and very injudi- 
ciously laid out, and seem as though they were directed 
to private convenience, without any regard to public 
accommodation, with the exception of the Worcester 
Turnpike aud the road leading from Newton to Natick, 
both of which are good travelling roads. The face of 
the country is not very hilly, and the settlements are 
thinly scattered over the whole town, which is about 
5% miles from east to west and 4| from north to south, 
and is bounded south on Long Ditch and Charles River, 
which divides it from Dedham and Dover, east on 
Charles River, which divides it from Newton, north by 
a straight line on Weston and west by a straight line 
on Natick. 

Distances. 



M. F. R, 

Bearing from the Old State 

House to the Rev. Dr. 

Noyes's Meeting House S. 7H° W. — 12 5 20 

To the Rev. Mr. Palmer's 

Meeting House S. 69£ W.— 10 6 35 

To the Methodist M. House S. 83 W.— 13 2 7 



; From the Old State House to Natick through Newton 
and by the Lower Falls. 

Intermediate Summary, 

distances. 



M. F. R. M. F. R. 

To the Lower Falls (page 98) 11 4 27— 00 o oa 
To the Rev. Mr. Noyes's Meet- 
ing House in Needham 2 7 9 — 14 3 36 
To Natick Wheel Factory 2 o 19 — 16 4 15 
To the Sherburne line l 6 7— is 2 22 



104 Naiick — Dedham. 

From the Old State House to Natick over the Wor- 
cester Turnpike, 

Intermediate Summary, 

distances. 



M. F. R. M. F. R. 

To the Upper Falls (page 102) 9 5 21 — 00 00 

To the crossing the Old Road 
leading to Boston by the Low- 
er Falls, at Smith's Tavern 2 3 14 — 12 35 

To the Cross Road from Wes- 
ton to Need ham 2 

To the Store beyond the Swamp 

To Haynes's Tavern 



From the Old State House to Dedham over the Turn* 
pike. 

Intermediate Summary, 

distances. 






33—14 1 2S 


7 


38—15 7 14 


6 


23—16 5 37 



M. F. R. M. F. R. 

To the beginning of the Turn- 
pike at the further end of 
Roxbury Street 2 5 7 00 

To the Cross Road leading to 

Hogg's Bridge 1 1 21 3 6 28 

To the Toll House at the Cross 

Road from Jamaica Plains 1 2 21 5 1 9 

To the Halfway House 1 1 8 6 2 17 

To Dedham Corner at Gay's 

Tavern 3 4 12 9 6 29 

To Dedham Court House o l 29—10 ts 



Dedham. 105 

use to L 
Plains, 



From the Old State House to Dedham through Jamaica 



Intermediate Summary, 

distances. 



M. F. R. M. F. R. 

To the Rev. Mr. Gray's Meet- 
ing House (page 43) 4 7 38 00 



'To the Road leading to the seat 






32 5 


9 


14 


1 


8 6 


6 


22 


7 


20 9 


6 


2 


4 


32—10 


2 


34 


1 


29—10 


4 


23 



of Benjamin Bussey, Esq. 4 24 5 4 22 

To the Toll Gate on Dedham 
< Turnpike 

To the Halfway House 1 

;To Mother Brook Bridge 2 

fTo Dedham Corner at Gay's 
J Tavern 

To Dedham Court House 

From the Old State House to Dedham through Jamaica 
Plains and Spring Street. 

Intermediate Summary 

( distances. 

M^ K R. M. F. R. 

To the Rev. Mr. Gray's Meeting 

House 4 7 38 00 

To the Cross Road that leads to 

the Halfway House I 7 18 6 7 16 

;To the Rev. Mr. Bradford's 

Meeting House 5 25 7 5 1 

o the Road branching oft' to 

Dedham Island 1 37 8 5 3S 

To the crossing the Dedham 

Turnpike 1 3 1—10 39 

o Dedham Corner at Gay's 

Tavern over the Old Road 5 17—10 fi 16 

To Dedham Court House 1 29—11 5 






, 



106 Dedham. 

Dedhara is the shire town for the county of Norfolk, 
its most compact part is towards the northern boun- 
dary and on the borders of Charles River, in which 
there are two churches, a court house, jail, bank, tav- 
erns, stores and dwelling houses of the first respectabili- 
ty. There are also several villages and scattered set- 
tlements within this town, and three other churches, 
the Baptist, on the old Hartford Road, near Buckmas- 
ter Pond, the Rev. Mr. White's about half a mile east 
of the Baptist, and the Rev. Mr. Cogswell's lying to- 
wards the southerly part of the town, on the old road to 
Sharon. The highest land is about a mile south-west 
from the centre of the town, near the Rev. Mr. White's 
Meeting House, whieh is about 400 feet above the level 
of the sea. There is a great variety of soil in this 
town, some high and healthy arable land, some covered 
with pine woods, others low and swampy ; upon the 
whole it may be considered an easy country for culture, 
and some farms are highly improved, but still there is 
much neglected, that may with a little artificial means, 
such as draining, &c. be brought into competition with 
their best soils. The turnpike leading from Boston to 
Providence runs through this town ; it is a good road, 
though not of the first quality, and considerably shortens 
the distance from Boston to Providenee. The old roads 
are crooked and not very systematically laid out, though 
they present a fair specimen of country roads. 

Extreme length of this town S| miles from north to 
south and six miles from east to west, averaging about 6 
miles by 4|. It is bounded north on Dorchester, Rox- 
bury, Newton and Needham, east on Milton, Canton 
and Sharon, south on Sharon and Walpole and west on 
Dover. 



Dover, 10" 



Distanoej* 
M. F. R. 

Bearing from the Old State 

House to Dedham Court 

House S. 45|° W. 9 5 18 

To the Episcopal Church S. 45 W 9 5 16 

To the Rev. Mr. Cogswell's 

Meeting House S. 39 W.-— 13 S 14 
To the Rev. Mr. White's 

Meeting House S. 44f W 12 4 16 

To the Baptist Meeting House S. 52 W.— 12 6 1 



From Dedham Court House to Dover. 



Intermediate Summary, 

distances. 



M. F. R. M. F. R. 

To the Directing Post on Dedham 

Common 2 35 — 00 

To Connecticut Corner o 2 22—0 5 18 

<To the Road to the right by the 

School House 1 5 2 — 2 2 20 

To the Road turning to Day's 
« Bridge 1 

To the Cross Road leading from 

the Slitting Mills 1 

To Dover Meeting House 1 

To the Road from Farm Bridge 

to Medfield. 2 

To Farm Bridge 






SI— 3 


3 


11 


6 


37—5 


2 


8 





9 — 6 


2 


17 





7—8 


2 


•24 


£ 


10—8 


4 


34 



408 Neivton — Milton. 

From Dedham Court House to the Newton Lower 
Falls. 



Intermediate Summary, 

distances. 



M. F. R. M. F. R. 

To New Bridge 1 5 1—0 00 

To the Road leading to Jamaica 

Plains 2 20 — 3 5 21 

To the Road by the School House 

to the Upper Falls 1 3 36—5 1 17 

To crossing the Worcester Turn- 
pike 7 14—i 31 

To the Bridge at the Lower Falls 7 8—6 7 39 



From Dedham Court House to Milton Lower Bridge. 



To the Dedham Factory 

To the Cross Road 

To the Norfolk Factory 

To William Sumner's Mills 

To the Road leading to the Wood o 

To Milton Upper Bridge 

To the Cotton Factory 

To Boice's Factory 

To Milton Lower Bridge 



Intermediate Summary, 
distances. 


M. F. 

7 


R. M. 
20—0 


F. 



R 
00 


2 


20 — 1 


2 


5 


1 3 


5—2 


5 


10 


1 5 


38—4 


3 


8 


1 


7—4 


4 


10 


7 


1—0 


3 


16 


2 


32—0 


6 


8 


5 


17—6 


3 


20 


3 


34 — 6 


7 


19 



Milton — Canton. io» 



From Dedham Court House to Milton Meeting House, 



Intermediate Summary. 

distances. 



M. F. R. M. F. Rv 

To the Cross Road on Dedham 

Plains 1 5 16 — 

To Paul's Bridge 2 2 32 — 4 8 
To the School House on Brush 

Hill Turnpike 7 31 — 4 7 39 

To A^erton's Tavern 1 3 — 5 1 2 

To IVt >n Meeting House 1 5 34 — 6 6 36 



1 
1 


From 


Dedham Court House to Canton. 






1 

To the 


Cross 


Road 


Intermediate 1 
distances. 


Summary, 


M. F. R, M. 

on Dedham 


F. 


R. 


Plains 




1 5 16—0 









To the Bridge over Neponset 

River 2 6 SO — 4- 4 6 

To the Road leading to Daven- 
port's Store 6 20 — 5 2 26 

To Canton Street 1 2 8—6 4 34 

To Cantou Meeting House 2 16 — 6 7 10 

10 



lio Dover. 



Distance*. 



Bearing from Dedham Court 

House to Canton Meeting 

House S. ±H° E 5 2 12 

To Milton Meeting House S. 87 E. 4 7 32 

To Boston Light N. 77£ E.— 15 3 1 

To Salem Town House N. 45 E.— 23 3 12 

To Harvard University N. 28 E. 9 8 

To Lexington Meeting House N. 3 W— 13 4 16 

To Natick Meeting House N. 70 W. 8 2 8 

To Dover Meeting House N. 89 W. 4 7 20 

To Medfield Meeting House S. 63 W. 7 4 1 

To Walpoie Meeting House S. 34 W. 7 6 12 

From the Old State House to Dover, by the late Wood- 
bury's Tavern in Newton, and through Needham. 

Intermediate Summary, 

distances. 



M. F. R. M. F. R. 

To the late Woodbury's (now 
Mitchell's Tavern over the 
Mill Dam and Worcester 

Turnpike (page 102) 8 5 5 00 

To the Bridge by General Eli- 
ot's over Charles River 1 1 26 9 6 31 

To the School House 5 14—10 4 5 

To the Rev. Mr. Palmer's Meet- 
ing House in Needham 1 4 31 — 12 36 

To Fisher's Bridge over Charles 

River 2 2 20 — 14 3 16 

To the Road branching to Na- 
tick 7 16—15 2 32 

To Dover Common by the Rev. 

Mr. Sanger's Meeting House 2 8 — 15 5 00 



Natick— Medfield. Ill 

The surface of the town of Dover is uneven and a 
great portion of it covered with wood, the roads are 
crooked with some acclivities. There are some consid- 
erable iron works, slitting, paper, grist and other mills 
on Charles River and on other streams in this town. 

The settlements are scattered, and the town is bound- 
ed north on Needham and Natiek, west on Natick and 
Sherburne, south on Medfield and Dedham, and east on 
Dedham. It is about 4^ miles in length and 2\ in width. 

Bearing from the Old State House to Dover 
Meeting House south, 62° west, 13 miles, 6 furlongs 
and 10 rods. 



From Dover Meeting House to Natick. 

Intermediate Summary, 

distances. 



M F R 1VC "F* H 

hTo Natick Wheel Factory 3 o 2 — o o 

To Natick Meeting House 1 7 4 — 4 7 6 

Bearing from Dover Meeting House to Natick Meet- 
ing house north, 45° west, 3 miles, 7 furlongs and 34 
rods. 

FVom the Old State House to Medfield over the Hartford 
Turnpike. 

Intermediate Summary, 

distances. 

M. F. R. M. F. R, 

fo Dedham Court House (page 
104) 10 18 — 00 00 
o the directing post on Ded- 
ham Common 2 35 — 10 3 43 
Vo the cross at Connecticut Cor- 
ner 2 23 — 10 5 36 



112 Medfield — Dover. 



To Ellis's Tavern 

To the Hartford Turnpike 

To the Cross Road at the Toll 

Gate 
To the intersection with the Old 

Road 
To the Cross Road by Medfield 

Meeting House 
To Medfield Bridge over Charles 

River 7 32—19 4 31 

From the Old State House to Medfield through Ded- 
ham and over the Old Road, 

Intermediate Summary. 

distances. 



Intermediate 


Jtimn 


arj. 


distances. 






M. F. R. M. 


F. 


R. 


2 2 9—13 





5 


3 4—13 


3 


9 


2 1 31—15 


5 





1 3 36— 17 





36 


1 4 2—18 


4 


39 



M. F. R. M. F. R. 

To Ellis's Tavern (see above) 13 5 — 00 00 

To the Baptist Meeting House 3 12 — 13 3 17 

To the Cross Road by the 

School House 1 6 7—15 1 24 

To the junction with the Hart- 
ford Turnpike 1 7 3—17 27 

To Medfield Meeting House 1 4 3—18 4 30 



From the Rev. Dr. Saunders's Meeting House in Med- 
field to Dover. 

Intermediate Summary, 

distances. 



M. F. R. M. F. R. 

To the branching off from Sher- 
burne Road 3 12—0 00 
To Dover Meeting House 3 6 21—4 1 32 1 



Walpole. 118 

From the Rev. Dr. Saunders's Meeting House in Medjield 
to Walpole over the North Road, 5 miles, 1 furlong 
and 2Q rods. 

From the Rev. Dr Saunders's Meeting House in Med- 
jield to Walpole over the South Road, 4 miles, 4 fur- 
longs and 32 rods. 



Distances. 
M. F. R 



Bearing from the Rev. Dr. 
Saunders's Meeting House in 
Medfield to Dover M. H. 
To Dedham Court House 
To Concord Court House 
To Salem Town House 
To Milton Meeting House 
To Walpole 



Front the Old State House to Walpole through Dedham 
and partly over the Turnpike. 

Intermediate Summary, 

distances. 



N. 


29° 


E. 3 


7 


24 


N. 


63 


E 7 


4 


1 


N. 




18 


2 


16 


N. 


48 


E. — 30 


5 


4 


N. 


74 


E.— 12 





2 


S. 


37i 


& 3 


7 


a 



M. F. R. M. F. R. 

To Dedham Corner at Gray's 

Tavern 9 6 29 — 00 00 

To the branching off of the Wal- 
pole Road from the Norfolk 
and Bristol Turnpike 4 

To the Mills on Bubbling 
Brook 1 

To the Walpole and Dover Road 2 

To Walpole Meeting House o 
10* 



2 


16 — 14 


1 


8 


2 


24—15 


3 


29 


2 


4—17 


5 


S3 


6 


28—18 


4 


2.1 



114 Dover — Dedham, 

Bearing from the Old State House, to Walpole 
Meeting House north, 41° west, 17 miles, 2 furlongs 
and 4 rods. 



From the Rev. Mr. Morey's Meeting House in Wal- 
pole to Dover. 

Intermediate Summary, 

distances. 



M. F. R. M. F. R. 

To the Old Hartford Road 4 3 12—0 00 

To the Hartford Turnpike 1 2 Z—5 5 ±5 

To Dover Meeting House 2 4 l — 8 1 16 



From the Rev. Mr. Morey's Meeting House in Walpole- 
to the Baptist Meeting House in Dedham over the West 
Road. 

Intermediate Summary, 

distances. 



M. F. R. M. F. R. 

To the Old Hartford Road 4 3 13—0 00 

To the Baptist Meeting House 1 5 32 — 6 1 4 



from the Rev. Mr. Morey's Meeting House in Walpole 
to the Baptist Meeting House in Dedham over the 
East Road. 





Intermediate Summary, 
distances. 


To Bubbling Brook 

To Buckmaster Pond 

To the Baptist Meeting House 


M. F. R. M. F. R. 
3 1 32 — 00 
1 7 g — 5 1 
1 1—6 1 1 



Milton. 



Bearing from Walpole Meeting 

House to Dover N. 5° 

To Dedham N. 34 

To Concord Court House N. 6 

To Salem Town House N. 42 





115 




Distances. 


M. 


F. It. 


W 6 


4 32 


E. 7 


6 12 


W.— 21 


3 4 


E— 31 


1 S 



From the Old State Souse to Davenport's Store in 
Milton over the Brush Hill Turnpike. 



Intermediate Summary, 

distances. 



M. F. R, M. F. R, 

To the beginning of Brush Hill 

Turnpike near the seat of T. 

K.Jones, Esq. 3 7 15 00 

!To the Road leading to the 

I Four Corners 

To Milton Upper Bridge 

To the Toll Gate 

I To the crossway at the School 

House 
To Davenport's Store 

From the Old State House to Davenport's Store in 
Milton over the South Boston Turnpike and Milton 






i 


36 4 


7 


11 


1 


7 


16 6 


6 


27 


1 


3 


8 8 


1 


35 





5 


16 8 


7 


11 


1 


3 


3—10 


2 


14 



Lower Bridge. 






Intermediate Summary, 
distances. 


To Milton Bridge (page 47) 
To Milton Meeting House 


M. F. R. M. F. R. 
6 3 37 00 

1 4 24 8 21 


To Atherton's Tavern 


1 5 34 9 6 15 


To Mr. Billings's Tavern 


1 1 — 10 6 16 


To Davenport's Store 


3 21—11 1 37 



no Milton. 

The north-east and middle parts of Milton are dry and 
healthy, the soil rather light and mostly adapted to til- 
lage, the surface swelling into eminences of from 10O to 
300 feet above the sea with a small portion of woodland 
on their acclivities. The south-west, south and south- 
easterly margins of the town become more broken and 
less cultivated. The westerly ridge of the Blue Hills 
are within the line of this town, which is 710 feet above 
the high water mark in Boston Bay ; at the foot of this 
hill are situated the country seats of R. D. Tucker and 
Isaac Davenport, Esqrs. as also that elegant tavern, 
boarding house and fruit gardens kept by Mr. Ebenezer 
Billings, which is one of the most delightful summer 
retreats in this neighbourhood. The main or principal 
roads are good and not very hilly, and there are tvyn 
turnpikes running through this town, the Brush Hill 
Turnpike which runs from the Milton Upper Bridge to 
the Canton line, nearly straight, about 3 1 miles, and the 
Taunton Turnpike which commences on Milton Hill 
and runs almost in a direct course to the Quincy line 
about 3| miles. The settlements are thickly scattered 
on the sides of the old roads throughout the town, the 
most compact are at Milton Hill and rouud the Meeting 
House, amongst which are the country seats of Barney 
Smith, Esq. and Dr. Holbrook at Milton Hill, Hender- 
son Inches, Esq. near the Meeting House, A. Baldwin, 
Esq. near the foot of Blue Hills and the Hon. Edward 
fl. Robbins. Esq. on Brush Hill. 

The town is bounded northerly on Neponset River, 
which divides it from the towns of Dorchester and Ded- 
ham, westerly by a straight line on Canton, southerly by 
a small brook on Randolph and easterly and northerly 
on Quincy. Extreme length 5| miles ; extreme breadthi! 

sl miles 5 mean b miles by 2f miles. 



Canton: 117 

Distances. 



Bearing from the Old State 
House to Milton Meeting 
l House S. 17° 

To Dr. Holbrookes S. 11 

To Billiugs's Tavern S. 25 





M. 


F. 


R. 


w. 


—7 


1 


82 


w. 


—6 


3 


00 


w. 


—9 


3 


31 




Distances. 



M. F. R. 



Bearing from Millon Meeting 
I House to Dedham Court 

House N. 87° W. 4 7 32 

To Concord Court House N. 37 W.— 18 7 31 

To Lexington Meeting House N. 22% W. — 14 7 38 

To Salem Town House N. 34 E. — 20 4 20 

To Boston Light N. 7l| E.— 11 16 

To Cohasset Meeting House S. 82 E.— 13 7 8 
i 

From the Old State House to Canton over the Brush 
Hill Turnpike. 

Intermediate Summary 

distances. 



M. F. R. M. F. R. 

To Davenport's Store in Milton 

(page 115) 10 2 14 — 00 00 

To the branching oft' of the 

Old Road opposite Puncapog 

Pond 2 1 — 12 2 15 

To Canton Meeting House 1 1 16 — 13 3 31 

Canton is situated on the southern base of the Blue 
Hills ; it is an expanded tract of flat land, and though 
its lower horizon is more than 200 feet above the sea, 
yet it has the appearance of being swamped for want of 



118 Randolph. 

the helping hand of art to relieve its stagnaut waters. 
Tbe face of the country is rough, thinly settled and but 
little arable land in the town, but there are some ex- 
tensive meadows. 

The Brush Hill Turnpike runs through the town, 
and the two easterly branches of Neponset River take 
their source therein, one from the Puncapog and one 
from the Stoughton Pond. 

Bearing from Boston to Cauton Meeting House south. 
25° west, 12 miles, 3 furlongs and 36 rodg. 



From the Old State House to Randolph over the Taunton 
Turnpike. 



Intermediate Summary, 

distances. 



M. F. R. M. F. R. 

To Milton Bridge over South 

Boston Turnpike (page 47) 6 3 37—0 00 
To the commencement of the 

Taunton Turnpike on Milton 

Hill 1 12 6 5 9 

To the Cross Road leading to 

Milton Meeting House 6 31 7 4 

To the Cross road at the Toll 

Gate 2 8 9 4 8 

To the Tavern at the foot of 

the Blue Hills 

To the Fork of the Turnpikes 1 
To Randolph Meeting House 3 



1 


16 9 


5 


24 


4 


28—11 


2 


12 





10—14 


2 


22 



2 


32—0 





00 


2 


20 — 5 


5 


12 


2 


15— 5 


V 


27 


2 


30 — 6 


2 


17 



Qirincy. 119 

From &e OW State iifouse £o Quincy over the South 
Boston and ({uincy Turnpikes. 

Intermediate Summary, 

distances. 

M. F. R. M. F. R. 

To the junction of the South Bos- 
ton Turnpike and the Road 
leading from Dorchester to Ne- 
ponset 4 

To the Tavern at Neponset 1 

To the Toll House at Neponset 
Bridge 

To Neponset Hotel 

To the Cross Road leading to Mil- 
ton 4 37 — 6 7 14 

To the Gateway of the Hon. Jo- 
siah Quincy's Road leading to 
his country seat 7 20—7 6 34 

To the Road leading to President 

Adams's 5 22 — 8 4 16 

To the junction of the Old Milton 

Road 2 1—8 6 17 

To the Cross Road at Quincy 
Meeting House 1 24 — 9 1 

From the Old State House to Quincy through Dorches- 
ter and Milton. 

Intermediate Summary, 

distances. 



tM. F. R. M. F. R. 
o Milton Bridge over the South 

Boston Turnpike (page 47) 6 3 37 00 

o the Seat of B. Smith, Esq. 2 31 6 6 28 

To the Cross Road branching 

off to Neponset 1 30 7 7 18 



120 Quincy. 



Intermediate Summary, 

distances. 



M. F. R. M. F. R. 

To the seat of Andrew Baxter, 

Esq. 7 28 8 7 6 

To the seat of Thomas Green- 
leaf, Esq. 6 6 9 5 12 

To the seat of John Adams, Esq. 
late President of the United 

States 2 33—10 7 

To the junction with the Quincy 

Turnpike 2 16—10 2 23 

To Quincy Meeting House 1 24 — 11 4 7 

The north and easterly sections of the town of Quin- 
cy are nearly free from woodland and the principal part 
of the soil is under culture. There are some detached 
tracts of salt marsh on Neponset River and on the bor- 
der of the Bay, in all about 400 acres. The upland is 
dry and healthy, principally arable and sheep pasture, 
with a surface swelling into gentle acclivities. The 
most settled part is towards the south-east round the 
Episcopal Church and the Rev. Mr. Whitney's Meeting 
House, where there is a compact village, consisting of 
a tavern, stores and respectable dwellings. About half 
a mile north-west from the Rev. Mr. Whitney's Meet 
ing House is the seat of the venerable John Adams 
Esq. late President of the United States, and about lj 
miles northerly therefrom is the country seat and high- 
ly cultivated farm of the Hon. Josiah Quincy, Esq 
there are also many country seats, farm houses anc 
other settlements scattered over the whole tract. Hal 
a mile south of the compact part is Payne's Hill, which; 
is a bed of rocks, covered with scraggy pine and cedars. 



Quiney. 121 

and riselh to a summit height of 210 feet above the sea. 
"The south-west part of the town from the common 
forms, with a little exception, a general body of rocks, 
woodland and hills, rising to a height of 610 feet above 
the sea, and is known by the name of Common Woods 
and Blue Hills. 

The roads to Quiney and those through the town arc 
generally good, with some small acclivities, the most 
;edious is the one over Payne's Hill. The Randolph 
ind Bridgewater Turnpike runs through the westerly 
part of this town between two ridges of the Blue Hills. 

Extreme length of the town from the westerly line on 
Blue Hills to the east point of Quiney Neck Sf- miles, 
Tom the same westerly line to the easterly rock on 
Bquantum 7| miles ; extreme breadth from Neponset 
3ridge to Quiney Bridge 5 miles. It is bounded west- 
erly and northerly from the Blue Hill River to Nepon- 
jet River on Milton, then by Neponset River on Dor- 
chester, then by Boston Bay and Town River Bay to 
Juincy Bridge, then southerly and easterly on Brain* 
ree, to the Blue Hill River, then southerly on the Blue 
Hill River which divides it from Randolph. 

I 

Distances. 



learing from the Old State 

House to the Rev. Mr. 

Whitney's Meeting House S. 13£ E.— 7 5 18 

fo the Episcopal Church S. 12 E. — 8 1 15 

I 11 



122 Braintree* 

From Boston to Braintree West Meeting House over 
the South Boston and Quincy Turnpikes* 



To Quincy Meeting House (p. 

119) 
To Mr. Bracket's in Quiney 
To the Episcopal Church 
To the Road branching from 

Payne's Hill 5 3 — 10 2 4 

To Braintree West Meeting 

House 1 8 — 11 2 ±2 



From Boston to Braintree Lower Meeting House over 
the Turnpike. 

Intermediate Summary* 

distances. 



Intermediate Summary, 
distances. 


M. F. 


R. M. F. R 


9 


1 o 00 


3 


24 9 3 25 


1 


16 9 5 1 



M. F. R. M. F. R. 

To Quincy Meeting House (p. 

119) 9 1 00 

To the Upper Landing in Brain- 
tree 1 5 12—10 5 13 

To Braintree Bridge 1 o 36 — 11 2 9 

To Braintree Lower Meeting 

House 1 8 — 11 3 IT 

To Thayer's Tavern in Wey- 
mouth 1 12 — 12 6 29 






Braintree — Weymouth . 1 23 

From Boston to Braintree through Quincy and over the 
Old Road. 

Intermediate Summary- 

distances. 



M. F. R. M» F. ». 

To Quincy Meeting House (p. 

119) 9 1 — 00 00 

To the Road ou Payne's Hill 
leading to Braintree West 
Meeting House 1 

To Braintree Iron Works 1 

To White's Tavern 

To the Turnpike 

To Thayer's Tavern in Wey- 
mouth 1 1—12 4 4 

From the Old State House to Weymouth through 
Quincy and over the Hingham Turnpike. 

Intermediate Summary, 

distances. 



2 


3 — 10 


2 


4 


3 


13—11 


5 


17 


4 


30—12 


2 


7 





36—12 


3 


3 



M. F. R. M. F. R. 

To Q-iiney Meeting House 9 1—00 00 

To the Toll House at Quincy 

' fcridsre . 1 7 1— 10 7 2 



'O 



To the Road branching oft' to 

[| Weymouth 1 12—11 7 11 

To the Rev. Mr. Norton's Meet- 

« ing House in Weymouth 1 1 21 — 13 3S 

From the Old State House to Weymouth through Quincy 
and over the Braintree Turnpike. 

Intermediate Summary, 

distances. 

M. F. R. M. F. R. 

To Quiney Meeting House 9 1 o 00 

To Braintree Meeting House 2 7 16 — 11 7 17 
Ip Thayer's Tavern in Wey- 
mouth 1 12 — 12 29 
Co the Rev. Mr. Norton's M.H. 1 4 40—13 6 5 



*24 Hingham. 

From the Old State House to Hingham through 
Quincy and over the Hingham Turnpike. 

Intermediate Summary, 

distances. 



J 


1—10 


7 


2 


7 


38 — 12 


7 





4 


11 — 14« 


3 


11 



M. F. R. M. F. R. 

To Quincy Meeting House (page 

119) 9 1 00 

To the Toll House at Quincy 

Bridge 1 

To Weymouth Bridge 1 

To the head of Hingham Street 1 
To the Meeting House (late Rev. 

Mr. Coleman's) 5 34—15 1 5 

To the Wharves at the Harbour 3 22—15 4 2? 



From the Old State House to Hingham through Quincy. 
Braintree, and over the Old Road from Thayer's Tav- 
ern in Weymouth. 

Intermediate Summary, 

distances. 



M. F. R. M. F. ft, 

To Thayer's Tavern in Wey- 
mouth (page 122) 12 29 00 

To the Road leading from Wey- 
mouth Meeting House 1 4 28 — 13 5 17 

To the Bridge at the landing 

over the Weymouth River 1 3 8 — 15 26 

Xo the Meeting House (late Rev. 

Mr. Coleman's) 2 6 36—17 7 2,1 



Hull. 129 

From Hingham Meeting Hon se, (late the Rev. Mr. 
Coleman's) to Queen Anne's Corner. 

Intermediate Summary, 

distances. 



F. R. 



To the Road on Lower Plains 

branching off for Cohasset 7 0—0 Of 

To the Road on the Plains branch- 
ing to the Right for Weymouth 1 1 33—2 33 

To the Rev. Mr. Whitney's Meet- 
ing House 3 8 — 2 4 1 

To Whit ton's Tavern at Queen 

Anne's Corner 2 8 40 — 5 1 11 





I 
M. 


>istances» 


Bearing from the Rev. Mr. Cole- 


F. R. 


man's Meeting House in Hing- 






ham to Dedham Court House N. 76° W.- 


—14 


4 1 


To. Concord Court House N. 32 W.- 


—26 


5 31 


To Weston at the Rev. Mr. 






Field's Meeting House N. 62 W.- 


—21 


6 30 


To Lexington Meeting House N. 45 W.- 


—33 


4 27 


To Salem Town House N. 6 E.- 


— 18 


6 20 


To Cohasset Meeting House S. 87 E. 


4 


2 32 


To Canton Meeting House S. 75 E ■ 


—13 


1 37 


From the Old State House to Hull throug 


h Hin 


gham. 


Intermediate 
distances. 




Summary. 



M. F. R. M. F. R. 

To H hi gham Meeting House (p. 

124) 15 1 5 00 

|To the branching off from the 

Cohasset Road 
To Hull B-icli 
To Hull Meeting House 
11* 



2 


6 


1—17 


7 


6 


2 


1 


24 — 20 





30 


t 


7 


4—21 


7 


34 



12% , Hull—Cohasstt. 

From the Old State House to Hull by Water, 8 mile9, « 
furlongs and 35 rods. 

The town of Hull is a neck of land stretching from 
Cohasset north and north-east between four and five 
miles, and is from forty rods to half a mile in width, it 
consists of five small eminences connected together by 
ridges of sand and pebbles, thrown up by the water, 
which the tide frequently overflows. 1 hese eminences 
are called Sagamore Hill, Whitehead Hill, Strawberry 
Hill, Alderton and Nantasket, on the latter whereof is 
the principal settlement, which consists of a few scat- 
tered dwellings and a Meeting House. 

It is bounded on all sides by the sea and Boston Bay 
except about forty rods where it projects from Cohasset. 



Bearing to Hull Meeting House 
To Nantucket Head 



Fromfhe Old State House to Cohasset through Hinghafti 
and over the Lower Road. 

Intermediate Suramaifjr. 

distances. 





55° 


E. 


Distance*. 


s 


M. 

—8 


F. 

3 


a. 

7 


s. 


61i 


U. 


—9 


4 






M. F. R. M. F. R\ 

To Hingham Meeting House (p. 

124) 15 1 5 00 

To the Road leading to Hull 2 6 1—17 7 6 

To Cohasset Meeting House 2 4 20—20 3 526 

To the Road leading to the Har- 
bour 1 24—20 9 10 

To Whittington's Boarding 

House 6 25—21 3 3$ 



Cohasset. 127 

From the Old State House to Cohasset through Hingham 
and by the Lower Plains Road. 



To Hingham Meeting House (p. 

124) 1 

To the Rev. J. Richardson's 

House 
To the Lower Plains 
To the Cross Road leadkig back 

to Hingham 
To the Road leading to Hull 



Intermediate Summary 
distances. 


M. F. 


R. M. 


F. R. 


L5 1 


5 


00 


4 


9— .15 


5 14 


2 


31 — 16 


5 


1 


1 — 17 


6 


1 1 


S — 18 


1 14 


2 4 


20—20 


5 34 



To Cohasset Meeting House 



Bearings and Distances in direct lines from the Old 
State House to the Meeting Houses and other perma- 
nent marks in the vicinity of Boston taken from accu- 
rate Trigonometrical and Geometrical calculation. 

Distances. 



M. F. R. 

Boston Light S. 69 e E. 8 5 5 

Bedford, Rev. Mr. Stearns's 

Meeting House N. 45 W.— 14 2 2S 

Beverly Lower Meeting House N. 40 E. — 15 2 

Braintree West Meeting House S. 9 E. 9 4 36 

East Meeting House S. iS£ E.— 10 2 27 
Brighton Rev. Dr. Foster's 

Meeting House S. 89 W. * 7 18 

Agricultural Hall S. 8S£ W. * 7 31 

Seat of Gorham Parson's, 

Esq. N.88iW 5 14 



V 



M. 


¥. 


R. 


S. 64^ W.— * 


2 


39 


S. 66 W. 3 


4 


1 


S.74 W. 3 


7 


4 


S. 67 W. 5 


a 


24 


8. 61i W. 5 


5 


14 


S. 72 W 5 


7 


4 



I3g Bearings and Distances. 

Distance*. 
M. 

Brookline, Rev. Mr. Pierce's 
Meeting House 
Punch Bowl Tavern 
Dr. Aspinwall's House 
Hon. T. H. Perkins's seat 
Dr. Spooner's House 
Riehards's Tavern 
Burlington, Rev. Mr. Sewall's 

Meeting House N.29 \V. — 12 1 
Cambridge, Harvard Univer- 
sity N. 63$ W. 3 2 

Rev. Dr. Holmes's Meeting 

House N. 65 W. 3 2 

Church N. 63| W. 3 3 

Botanical Gardens N. 57\ W. 3 6 

Rev. C. Lowell's (late Gov. 

Gerry's) N. 60 W. 4 3 

Fresh Pond Hotel N. 63i W 4 6 

Cambridge Port, Rev. Mr. Gan- 

net's N. 67 W. 2 1 

Rev. Mr.Jacobs's N. 73 W. 2 3 

Canton, Rev. Mr. Ritchie's Meet- 
ing House S. 2d W.-—12 3 
Chai lesiown, Rev. Dr. Morse's 

Meeting House N. 6i W. 1 

Rev. Mr. Walter's Meet- 



ing House 


- 


N. 


H 


w.~ 


-1 


2 


Methodist Meeting 


House 


N. 


H 


w.~ 


-1 


3 


Insane Hospital 




N. 


371 


w— 


-1 


5 


Odin's house on 


Winter 












Hill 




N. 


321 


w.— 


-3 


2 



Bearings and Distances. *29 

Distances. 



Chelsea, Rev. Mr. Tuckerman's 

Meeting House N. 43^ E. 4 3 

Point Shirley S. 8t E. 4 4 

Cohasset, Rev. Mr. Flint's Meet- 
ing House 8. 53 E.—- 14 4 20 
Whiltington's house S. bb\ E. — 14 7 39 
Concord Court House N. 58£ W.— 15 7 5 
Danvers Lower Meeting House N. 35 E. — 13 2 9 

Dedham Court House S. 45| W. 9 5 18 

Episcopal Church S. 45 W.-^.-9 5 16 
Rev. Mr. Cogswell's Meet- 
ing House S. 39 W. — 13 3 14 
Rev. Mr. White's Meeting 

House S. 441 W.— 12 4 16 

Baptist Meeting House S. 52 W— 12 6 1 
Dorchester, Rev. Dr. Harris's 

Meeting House S. ll£ W. 3 3 30 

Rev. Mr. Codman's Meet- 
ing House S. 16 W. 4 5 10 

Rev. Dr. Richmond's S. 14 W. 5 6 30 

Dover, Rev. Mr. Sanger's Meet- 
ing House S. 62 W. — 13 6 10 
East Sudbury, Rev. Mr. Wright's N..82f W.—-15 3 8 
Hingham, Rev. Mr. Coleman's 

Meeting House 8.41} E — 11 5 13 

Rev. Mr. Richardson's S. 41£ E.—ll 7 <* 

Rev. Mr. Whitney's S. 34i E.— 13 3 24 
Whitton's Tavern at Queen 

Anne's Corner S. 31 E.— 14 2 1 

Hull S.55£ E 8 3 7 

Lexington, Rev. Mr. Briggs's N. 47* W.— 10 4 8 

Lincoln, Rev. Dr. Stearns's N. 64* W— 13 %% 



130 Bearings and Distances. 



Distances. 



M. F. 

Lynn Westerly Meeting House N. 39i E. 8 3 

Easterly Meeting House N. 44f E. 9 5 

Hotel N.3P1 E. 8 3 

Spring Pond Hotel N\ 36} E — 10 3 

Hall's Dye House N. 35 E— 10 

Phillips's at Phillips's Point N. 54 E.— 11 1 

Meeting House at Nahant N. 68£ E 8 3 

Marblehead West Meeting H. N. 51 E.— 14 6 

East Meeting House N. 51^ E. — 14 2 

Maiden, Rev. Mr. Green's Meet- 
ing House N. t W. 4 5 

Rev. Mr. Nelson's Meeting 

House N. 2 W. 4 7 

Medford, Rev Dr. Osgood's N. 29 W. 5 2 

Seat of his Excellency Gov. 

Brooks N. 28 W. 4 7 

Seat of the Hon. Peter C. 

Brooks, Esq. N. 37 W. 5 7 

John L. Sullivan's Faetory N. 32 W. 7 

Asher Adams, Esq. House N. 21 W. 5 5 

Medford Hotel N. %%\ W. 4 6 

Medfield. Rev. Dr. Saunders's 

Meeting House B. 54^ W.— 17 1 

Rev. Mr. Gammell's S. 54 W.— 17 2 

Milton, Rev. Mr. Gile's S. 17 W. 7 1 

Natick, Rev. Mr. Moore's S. 7 6i W.-—15 2 

Wheel Factory S 71 W. — 16 4 

Needham, Rev. Mr. Palmer's S. 69£ W.— 10 6 

Rev Mr. Noyes's S. 7C£ W— 12 5 

Methodist Meeting House S. 83 W — 13 2 

Vewton, Rev. Mr. Homer's S. 8li W 7 8 



Bearings and Distances. 131 

Distances. 

Rev. Mr. Greenough's N. 87 W. 8 4 30 

Rev. Mr. Grafton's S. 77£ W. 7 4 25 

Episcopal Church at Low- 
er Falls S. 83 W — 10 2 28 
Angier's Corner S. 89f W.- — 6 3 28 

Upper Falls S. 77 W. 9 

Quincy, Rev. Mr. Whitney's 

Meeting House S. 13| E. 7 5 18 

Episcopal Church S. 12 E 8 1 15 

Seat of John Adams, Esq. S. 11* E. 7 2 1 

Seat of the Hon. Josiah 

Quincy S. 14 E 6 1 17 

Neponset Hotel S. 4| E. 5 1 2 

Reading Wood End Meeting 

House N. 4* W.— 11 6 *8 

Randolph, Rev. Mr. Pomeroy's S. b\ W. — 12 4 18 

Roxbury, Rev. Dr. Porter's S. 47 W. 2 4 28 

Rev. Mr. Bradford's S. 49| W. 6 5 00 

Rev. Mr. Gray's S. 47| W. 4 4 00 

Halfway House on Dedham 

Turnpike S. 45£ W. 6 1 15 

Salem Town House N. 4U E. — 13 5 20 

Saugus Meeting House N. 241 E. 7 7 5 

Stoneham, Rev. Mr. Stevens's N. 6 W. 8 4 35 

South Reading, Rev. Mr. Em- 
erson's N. 2 E. — 10 3 30 

Rev. Mr. Davis's N. 3 E 10 3 20 

Watertown, Rev. Mr. Francis's N. 76 W. 6 1 26 

Bridge N. 78 W 6 4 31 

United States Arsenal N. 81 W.- — 5 3 0« 

Hon. H. G. Otis's Seat N. 72 W.--5 6 4 



132 Bearings and Distances; 

Distances. 



M. F. R. 

Seat of N*. Amory, Esq. N. 69^ W. 3 6 f» 

Walpole, Rev. Mr. Morey's S. 41 W. — 17 2 4 

Waltham, Rev. Mr. Ripley's N. 7li W. 9 9 

Seat of the Hon. C. Gore, 

Esq. N. 76 W. 5 $ 24 

Boston Factory N. 77 W. 9 4 

West Cambridge Meeting House N. 44 W. 6 2 1 

Weston, Rev. Mr. Field's N. SI W — 12 1 20 

Baptist Meeting House N. 89^ W. — 12 2 28 

Methodist Meeting House N. 72 W. — 12 3 3 

Stony Brook Bridge N. 80^ W— 10 7 12 

Flagg's Tavern N. 83 W, — 14 1 11 

Weymouth, Rev. Mr. Norton's S. 2b\ E. — 10 1 11 

Woburn, Rev. Mr. Chickering's N. 24 W. 9 4 7 

Tay's Tavern N. 19 W. — 12 14 



Bearings and distances in direct lines from Harvard 
University to the Meeting Houses, Churches, 8[c. 
within the range of this Survey. 

Distance*. 



M F R 

To Boston Old State House S. 63£ E 3 2 1 

Boston Light S. 67| E 11 6 34 

Bedford, Rev. Mr. Stearns's N. 39£ W. — tl 2 1 

Beverly Lower Meeting House N. 52 E. — 16 6 36 

Braintree West Meeting House S. 2l£ E. — It 5 24 

East Meeting House S. 27 \ E. — 12 5 4 

Brighton, Rev. Mr. Fpster's S. 50| W. 2 3 

Brookline, Rev. Mr. Pieree's S. 501 W 3 2 32 

Burlington Meeting House N. 18 W.-*-^9 6 IS 



Bearings and Distances, 133 

Distance*. 



5 


8 


5 


y 


2 


i 





3 





36 



M. F. R. 

Canton, Rev. Mr. Ritchie's Meet- 
ing House S. 12 E.— 13 2 6 
Charlestown, Rev. Dr. Morse's 

Meeting House S. 81^ E. 2 7 S 

Chelsea, Rev. Mr. Tuekerman's 

Meeting House N. 73± E. 6 1 36 

Cohasset, Rev. Mr. Flint's Meet- 
ing House S. 5±\ E. — 17 
Concord Court House N. 56| W. — 12 
Danvers Lower Meeting House N. 4S E. — 14? 

Dedhara Court House S. 28 W. 9 

Episcopal ( hurch S. 26£ W 9 

Rev. Mr. Cogswell's Meet- 
ing House S. 24i W.— 12 7 24 
Rev. Mr. White's Meeting 

House 
Baptist Meeting House 
Dorchester, Rev. Dr. Harris's 

Meeting House S. 25 E. 5 

Rev. Mr. Codman's Meet- 
ing House 
Rev. Dr. Richmond's 
Dover, Rev Mr. Sanger's Meet- 
ing House 
East Sudbury, Rev. Mr. Wright*! 
Hingliam, (late Rev. Mr. Cole- 
man's Meeting House) 
Rev. Mr. Richardson's 
Rev. Mr. Whitney's 
Hull Meeting House 
Lexington, Rev. Mr. Briggs's 
Lincoln, Rev. Dr. Stearns's 
32 



S. 31 


W.— 11 


6 


16 


S. 34 


W— 11 


6 


32 



S. 16 E 6 





36 


S. 12i E. 7 


1 


1 


S. 4S^ W.— 12 





1 


N. 87£ W— 12 


1 


28 


S. 45| E 14 


1 


26 


S. 4r-| E. — 14 


3 


24 


S. 40 E. — 15 


**' 


4 


S. 57 E.—il 


4 


21 


N. 40i W 7 


3 


7 


N. 64i W. 9 


6 


32 



1S4 Bearings and Distances, 



Distance*. 



N. 


iaj 


E. 


3 





S. 


44 


W. 


—15 


5 


s. 


44 


W.- 


—15 


7 


s. 


8± 


E.- 


—8 


2 



M. F. 

Lynn Westerly Meeting House N. 58 E.-~ 9 7 

Easterly Meeting House N. 60| E 11 

Hotel N. 571 E - 9 3 

Marblehead East Meeting House N. 62 E. — 16 1 
Maiden, Rev. Mr. Green's Meet- 
ing House N. 48 E. 4 2 

Medford, Rev. Dr. Osgood's 

Meeting House N. 9 E 3 1 

Seat of his Excellency Gov. 
Brooks 
Medfield, Rev. Dr. Saunders's 
Meeting House 
Rev. Mr. Gammell's 
Milton, Rev. Mr. Gile's 
Natick, Rev. Mr. Moore's Meet- 
ing House S. 60i W.— 12 3 
Needham, Rev. Mr. Palmer's 

Meeting House S. 53i W. 8 7 

Rev. Mr. Noyes's Meeting 

House S. 63^ W.— 10 2 

Methodist Meeting House S. *?2\ W. — 10 5 
Newton, Rev. Mr. Greenough's 

Meeting House S. 78 W. 5 5 

Episcopal Church at Low- 
er Falls S. 69 W 7 6 

Rev. Mr. Homer's Meeting 

House S. 581 W. 4 5 

Rev. Mr. Grafton's S. 55 W. 5 2 

Angier's Corner S. 76 W. 3 4 

Upper Falls S. 5Z\ W 6* 5 

Quincy, Rev. Mr. Whitney's 

Meeting House S. 27| E. 9 7 



Bearings and Distances. 13& 



M. F. R. 

Episcopal Church S. 26£ E —10 3 11 

Seat of John Adams, Esq. S. 26} E. 9 4 

Reading Wood End Meeting 

House N. 10* E.— 10 4 I 
Roxbury, Rev. Dr. Porter's Meet- 
ing House S. 19 E. 3 2 24 

Universalis! Meeting House S. 21 E. 3 3 7 

Baptist Meeting House S. 22 E. 3 4 6 

Rev. Mr. Gray's Meeting 

House S. 5 W. 4 2 32 

Rev. Mr. Bradford's Meet- 
ing House S. 21 W. 6 2 

Salem Town House N. 54} E.— 15 32 

Saugus Meeting House N. 46} E. 7 4 36 

South Reading, Rev. Mr. Em- 
erson's Meeting House N. 21 E.— -9 4 00 
Rev. Mr. Davis's N. 22 E.- — 9 5 12 

Stoneham, Rev. Mr. Stevens's 

Meeting House N. 26 E. 7 3 00 

Watertown, Rev. Mr. Francis's 

Meeting House S. 88 W. 3 4 

Bridge S. S5£ W. 3 3 32 

Walpole, Rev. Mr. Morey's 

Meeting House S. 30 W. — 16 6 8 

Waltham, Rev. Mr. Ripley's 

Meeting House N. 77 W. 5 

West Cambridge Meeting House N. 26 W. 3 

Weston, Rev. Mr. Field's Meet- 

ing House N. S7£ W. 8 

Baptist Meeting House S. 81} W. 9 

Methodist Meeting House N. 76 W. 9. 



5 


3 


2 


20 


3 


24 


3 


38 



136 Table of Long Measmt. 



Distant**. 
M. F. ft. 



Weymouth, Rev. Mr. Norton's 

Meeting House S. 34 JE. — 12 6 24 
Woburn, Rev. Mr. Chickering's 

Meeting House N. 8 W. 7 2 2 

The foregoing Bearings are from the Magnetic Me- 
ridian, the variation at Boston is 6° 3' West in lS2t. 



Table of Long Measure. 

3 Barley Corns make i Inch. 
\2 Inches make 1 Foot. 

3 Feet make 1 Yard. 

5± Yards or 16^ Feet make 1 Pole or Perch. 
40 Poles or 660 Feet or 220 Yards make 1 Furlong 

8 Furlongs or 5280 Feet or 1760 Yards make 1 
Statute Mile. 



APPENDIX. 



The Old State House in Boston is situated in Lati- 
tude 42° 23' 6" North and Longitude 71° 4' S" West 
from Greenwich. The environs round this town are 
remarkable for the great variety and beauty of pros- 
pect ; the level tracts of marsh land whose surface bu- 
ried at high tides shews to the distant observer one gen- 
eral connected sheet of water with the small eminences, 
and even the town of Boston circumscribed therewith, 
appearing as islands rising therefrom, the distant swell- 
ing acclivities with country seats and ornamented 
grounds, the serpentine courses of the rivers and streams, 
the majestie harbours, bays and inlets, bespangled with 
islands and straits, and the more distant view of hills 
and woods present at onee to the elevated beholder a 
scene sublimely grand and truly picturesque. 

Advancing into the interior the country becomes more 
ibroken, but still a variety is presented to the traveller, 
'he is glided through level vales surrounded by luxurious 
meadows, corn fields and rich pastures, interspersed with 
gardens, orchards and the hospitable habitations of the 
*12 



138 Appendix. 

tenantry ; here he may view the bountiful hand of na- 
ture lavishing her rewards on the industrious husband- 
man, he may see the contented cottager cheerfully toil- 
ing through the day and at eve in jovial society peace- 
fully assembled to enjoy that rural happiness which is 
vainly sought for in exalted life. Then he passeth 
through the shady grove, surrounded with lofty trees 
whose graceful branches waving with the gentle breeze 
shelters his path from the piercing rays of a meridian 
sun, when to complete nature's perfected beauties, sud- 
denly as if by magic through the aperture of leafless 
trunks of the tall oak trees opens to his view one of 
those delightful sheets of water with which the country 
abounds, whose limpid level surface reflecting the rays 
of the setting sun and the green towering trees which 
surround its marginal shores, present to the astonished 
beholder a prospect enchant ingly grand on which he 
may feast his admiration even to gluttony. 

Passing the confines of those delightful scenes the 
country is more romantic, intermingled with rocky emi« 
nences rising from 50 to 150 feet above their base, some 
of whose bold and almost inaccessible acclivities, scat- 
tered with seraggy cedar and pine trees rooted in the 
cliffs of the soilless rocks, baffles all means of cultural 
improvement; here nature hath diversified the scene, 
here the prospect is romantic and barren to view, yet 
within these wild tracts there are plats of intervale at 
the foot of the rocks sheltered from the piercing winds* 
producing crops of corn, grain and vegetables, richly re- 
warding the tail of the industrious occupant. 

The country three miles round the suburbs of Boston 
is generally under improvement or cultivation, taking a 
second parallel ring of three miles fartiier in the coup- 



Appendix. f3f* 

try about three fourths of the soil is finder culture, still 
advancing a third parallel of three miles about two 
thirds of the land is cultivated, exterior of this to the ex- 
tent of this survey one half of the land may he said to 
be brought under the care of the husbandman, the other 
half remaining in its natural state, either covered with 
forest trees or a rocky and unimproved surface. 

The agriculturalists in this section of the country are 
mostly after the old school, prejudice seems to have fast- 
ened them to the common practice of their ancestors, but 
there are many scientific farmers by whom various ex- 
periments are tried and valuable improvements discov- 
ered, yet time only can convince the general practical 
body in the utility of following up those advantages so 
useful to mankind and so advantageous to themselves, 
they seem wedded to an hereditary habit, however re- 
proachable or fatal the result, yet every avenue to con- 
viction seems at present to be impenetrably blocked up, 
but ere long it is to be hoped that the specimens of real- 
ities hourly presented from confirmed experience will 
awaken them to a due sense of the imperfection in their 
present system and clear to their understandings the ne- 
cessity of a partial and practical reform. 

At present the broadcast husbandry is almost general, 
corn planted in hills and grain sowed by hand, the drill 
j husbandry being but very little practised. There seems 
too much sameness amongst the common practitioners 
in agriculture, they repeat the same kind of manure and 
•grow the same species of grain so frequent that the soil 
ibecomes cloved therewith and needs a change both in 
Icrop and system. 

Some of the arable lands have considerable stagnant 
waters on the surface, and as there are no artificial 



140 Jlppendiw. 

drains to relieve the same, a great improvement to the 
crops may be made by throwing up the soil into ridges, 
of from six to ten furrows each, striking the combs clean 
between each ridge, it would draw off all the surface 
water and much improve the strength and health of the 
crop. The furrow heads are also uniformly neglected, 
for want of attendance thereto the margin of the field 
is often overrun with noxious weeds, brambles, barberry 
bushes, &e. which not only breed a destructive fungus, 
but in other respects are very injurious to the culture of 
grain, or even to grasses, fruit and vegetables. 

The principal manures used in this neighbourhood 
are stable, stall, yard or street compost, sopers' lees or 
sea weed. Marl hath not been found in the country, and 
there is no limestone yet discovered. Scalping and burn- 
ing the sod, folding the flock, or crossing the soil for a 
change in manure seems not to be understood, or at least 
not put in practice, nor is irrigation, though there are 
many streams that may be used with great advantage for 
that purpose. 

Under or hollow draining would be very beneficial to 
a great portion of the low and meadow land, and much 
valuable soil may be recovered, that now lies waste in a 
swampy state, were the helping hand of art applied 
thereto. 

The half or cleansing crops such as turnips, rape, 
madder, buckwheat or lucern seems but little regarded, 
but ruta baga, parsnips, carrots, and cattle cabbage are 
working their way into note. Hemp and flax are but 
little cultivated. 

There arcconsiderable tracts of salt marshes or fen 
lands round the vicinity of Boston, which would be very 
materially improved by embankment and diking, pro- 



appendix. i41 

vided the salt water was effectually kept from its surface. 
The natural position of a great part of these fens is 
such as to render embankment a very easy task, and in 
fact nature itself hath done much towards enclosing one 
of the largest tracts (that called Chelsea and Lynn 
Marshes) by throwing up a sand and pebble bank, water 
tight, nearly the whole length of the coast against which 
they join, leaving one creek to be banked with a small 
flood door for the discharge of the surface waters which 
may be collected therein, and also Saugus River which 
is about forty rods wide at its mouth, and must be em- 
banked with a sea wall, arching therein two pair of 
flood doors of about two feet each door to close against 
the flow of tide and to discharge the fresh water at ebb 
tide. This with a very little embankment of minor con- 
sequence would recover near^ four thousand acres from 
the salt water, which when effectually relieved there* 
from is a species of soil that becomes very productive 
for grass or wheat and requires no kind of manure, the 
soil being formed several feet deep by sediment is in it- 
self peculiarly rich. 

In the years 1803 and 1806 the author of this was 
engaged as engineer in the enclosure of a similar tract 
in the county of Somerset, England, winch was enclosed 
and divided amongst the proprietors under the authority 
of parliament. The general level of the tract was seve- 
ral feet under high water mark in the channel or sea 
adjoining and was subject to the flow of high tides on 
its surface. This land in its open state produced about 
one ton and a half of salt hay per acre annually, the 
collection whereof was attended with considerable in- 
convenience. A sea wall or bank was built on the coast, 
the rivers diked and flood doors erected lo keep back 



142 Appendix. 

the salt water and discharge the fresh at ebb tides ; bj 
these means and by cutting drains into the channels of 
the rivers and emptying the same through the flood 
doors, the surface was thoroughly drained from the salt 
and stagnant waters, and in three years the verdure 
completely changed from the sedge, rushes and hard 
gpiry grasses to a thick matty sward of meadow, fiscue 
and other rich grasses, producing three tons of first rate 
hay per acre annually, besides the spring and after 
grasses, which are of considerable value. 

As a proof of the improvement the land prior thereto 
was let at from 10 to 15 shillings per acre, when it sud- 
denly advanced after the undertaking was completed to 
from three to five pounds sterling per acre and was 
eagerly sought for even at that rate. 

There are also many tracts of salt marshes on the 
banks of the Charles, Mystic, Neponset and Manatticut 
rivers, besides those on the coast, the greater part 
whereof are easy for enclosure and at a very moderate 
expense, but prejudice hath persuaded many of the pro- 
prietors that there is no utility iu inclosures of this sort, 
that the land is as valuable in its present state and tba£ 
they want salt hay for their cattle. 

I am willing to admit there are some small tracts of 
salt marshes, formed with a thin spongy soil on a sandy 
bottom, that had better remain in their present state, 
taking the salt water therefrom would be injurious, they 
are not yet (as provincial ly termed) ripe for an enclo 
sure, however there is but a small proportion of this 
quality amongst the unenclosed marshes. 

As regards sail hay the grass produced by the en- 
closed marshes would be sufficiently impregnated there- 
with for several years, aud even when that should fail 



Appendix. 143 

it would be hut a trifling expense to salt down a portioa 
as it is stacked, which would answer every purpose for 
the cattle, and one third the quantity of land after be- 
ing enclosed from salt water would produce as much 
hay as the whole tract doth in its present condition, be- 
sides the spring and fall grasses. 

It hath been tested beyond a doubt that recovered salt 
marshes are better for wheat than any other soil, and 
at Cornwallis, on the Bay of Fundy, as a proof, there 
are several hundred acres which were embanked about 
fifteen years since and have been successively eropt with 
wheat, and averaged from forty to sixty bushels per 
acre, annually. Romney Marsh, in the county of Kent, 
England, produces another specimen. This marsh, 
about 25 years since, was open to the sea and river, sub- 
ject to the flow of salt water on its surface 5 it contained 
from twenty to thirty thousand acres, was enclosed, and 
is now considered the most productive tract of surface 
of its size in the kingdom. A thousand other cases may 
be shewn which incontestibly prove the advantages re- 
sulting from such laudable undertakings. 

Internal improvements are progressing in rapid suc- 
cession, the waters in Boston Harbour and Merrimae 
River are united by the Middlesex Canal which was 
completed about 15 years since. Turnpike roads are 
made from Boston to most of the principal towns and 
bridges built in connexion therewith, but still there re- 
mains much to be done. Many advantageous routes for 
internal navigation offer, and much improvement on the 
surface is needed. A great portion of the best meadow 
land lieth almost void for want of being relieved of the 
surface and stagnant waters by hollow or open drains, 
but this is a work that must be undertaken conjointly by 



I4t Jppendix. 

the proprietors of the whole tract of flat or low land 
that is to be relieved, or at least as far as its level or 
stagnated waters extend. 

Judicious exchanges and division of estates might be 
made with great advantage to the landholders' interest 
in many cases, rendering the property more compact and 
thereby reducing the labour in cultivation. 

The principal rivers in this vicinity are the Charles, 
Mystic, Neponset and Manatticut which fall into Bos- 
ton Harbour and the Saugus which empties itself into 
Lynn Harbour. 



Charles River. 

The limits of this survey extend on Charles River as 
far as Farm Bridge, between the towns of Dover and 
Sherburne, where there passeth about 3 3 feet water on a 
mean flow. From which bridge its course is N. by E 
about 3i miles to Natick Bridge and Wheel Factory, 
then its course is S. by E. and E. by 8. about 5 miles to 
Dover Bridge, where there is a dam across its bed and 
several slitting, paper and other mills in operation. Ir 
this last space it receives the waters from the outlet ol' 
Brown and Ballard's Ponds and other small streams anc 
its body is about 45 feet at Dover Bridge, from whence 
it runs E. by N. about 4 miles to Long Ditch, then i : 
runs E. by S. about half a mile when it turns S. by E. 
and runs in a serpentine course near to Dedham, when: 
it circuitously graduates round what is called Dedharr* 
Island to a diametrically opposite course, here it casts 
off about one third of its water at nearly right angle i 
with its common course, the water cast off is called 



Appendix, 146 

Mother Brook and runs in a S. E. and easterly direction 
about 3£ miles where it falls into Neponset River with 
which it is discharged into the part of Boston Harbour 
called Dorchester Bay. From Mother Brook the general 
course of Charles River is N. N. W. and N. W. about £ 
miles to Newton Upper Falls, receiving several tributa- 
ry streams from the towns of Newton and Needham, 
making its body about 42 feet. At Newton Upper Falls 
there are considerable iron works carried on together 
with several other mills and factories. From Newton 
Upper Falls its course is N. W. about two miles to 
Newton Lower Falls, where there are several paper, 
grist and other mills, and the tributary streams have 
augmented its body to about 44* feet of water. From the 
Lower Falls the river runs N. by E. about 2 miles, 
where it receives the waters from Stony and Cherry 
Brooks, then it runs S. 1 mile, then N. by E. 2 miles to 
Boston Factory in Waltham, from which it runs easter- 
ly about a mile (in which it receives the water of Bea- 
ver Brook) to Waltham Factory, 1 mile to Bemis's Fac- 
tory and l mile to Watertown Bridge, at each of these 
three places there are dams across the bed of the river, 
and mills, factories, &c. in operation. The tributary 
streams have increased the body of fresh water at Wa- 
tertown to about 78 feet, meaning at a mean flow of the 
river that the water would pass through yet fill an aper- 
| ture of 78 feet in length and 1 foot in depth or any other 
I proportion making the same dimensions. From Wa- 
i tertown Bridge the course is still in an easterly direction 
| about 3 miles to Cambridge line, when it bends round to 
[the S. about 2 miles, passing under Cambridge and 
; Brighton Bridges, then its course is easterly about 1 
mile to its outlet. 
33 



146 Appendix. 

The route of Charles River is singularly circnitou8 } 
from Farm Bridge leading over its bed from Dover to 
Sherburne, the distance in a straight line to its estuary 
or outlet is 14 miles, taken by the serpentine course of 
its water, it measures 38i miles. 

The falling off from its natural direction at Dedham, 
and leaving one third of the water to continue a route 
seemingly concordant with its general course, is a cir- 
cumstance very extraordinary in its nature and such as 
seldom occurs in the history of rivers. By this phe- 
nomenon the towns of Boston, Brookline, Brighton, 
Newton, Roxbury, Dorchester and a strip from each of 
the towns of Dedham and Watertown, form an island, 
or rather are circumscribed by the waters of Charles 
River, Mother Brook, Neponset River and Boston Har- 
bour. 

From Farm Bridge to Watertown Bridge the distance 
is Z2\ miles and the fall of the river between these two 
places is about 155 feet making a general descent of 
»ear 4| feet per mile. 



Mystic River. 

The eastern branch of this river takes its rise in 
Reading at Parley Meadows, is called Parley Brook, 
and runs south-westerly through Woburri, about 3£ 
miles, where it is joined by a middle branch which rises 
in Wilmington. About a mile and a half southerly of 
the junction of these two streams it is joined by a stream 
outletting from Horn Pond, here it takes the name of 
Mystic, and continues its course S. by W. about 1 mile, 
where there is a dam across its bed at Sullivan's Facto- 



Appendix. 14# 

ry, then its course is westerly about half a mile to 
Mystic Pond, which is a swell of the river about 1 mile 
in length and in some places nearly half a mile wide, 
nearly cut in two in the middle, and up to whieh the 
tide flows. From Mystic Pond the general course of 
the river is S. W. about 2\ miles to Medford Bridge, 
passing in a serpentine form through the meadows by 
the compact part of the town of Medford and receiving 
the waters from the outlet of Fresh Pond and a tributa- 
ry stream near the seat of the late Hon. Timothy Bige- 
low, Esq. At Medford the river is about 3 rods wide 
and about 35 feet of fresh water passeth on an average. 
From Medford Bridge the course is S. E. 3 miles to 
Maiden Bridge where the river hath expanded to 120 
rods in width, continuing on little more than a mile tQ 
Chelsea Bridge, where it mingle with the waters of 
Boston Harbour. 

The source of this river is %\ miles from its outlet in 
a direct line and by the course of the stream it measur- 
eth 13i miles. Its fall from the source to Mystic Pond 
is about 8 feet to a mile. 



Neponset River. 

The source of this river is in the town of Foxborough 
from which it runs north-easterly through the towns of 
Foxborough and Walpole, where it receiveth the water 
of a small easterly branch descending from the town of 
Dover, and continuing about 2 miles it crosseth the 
Norfolk and Bristol Turnpike, near the Dedham and 
Walpole town line, where there are a cotton factory, 
mills, &c. from whence its course is N. bv E. about a 



14S Appendix, 

mile and a half, wherein it receives the Bubbling Brook 
stream in Dedham, then it runs S. E. about a mile and 
a half to the head of Fowl Meadows, where it receives 
the waters from Taphole Brook and the westerly branch 
of the Neponset from Canton and Stoughton Ponds. 
Then it windeth its course N. E. through Fowl Mea- 
dows about 5 miles to Paul's Bridge, receiving the tri- 
butary waters from Purgatory Swamp in Dedham and 
Puncapog Pond in Canton, then it eontinueth a north- 
erly course about a mile and a half to its junction with 
Mo; -,er Brook, from whence it runs E. N. E. about a 
mile to Sumner's Mills and on a mile and a half to 
Milton Upper Bridge, where there are paper and other 
mills, and continuing the same course about a mile and 
a halj* to Milton Lower Bridge and Falls, in which 
space there are two dams and factories, mills, &c. and 
at Milton Bridge there are also factories, paper and 
other mills in operation. From these falls, up to which 
the tide flows, the course of the river is N. E. %\ miles 
to Neponset Bridge, from which it runs N. E. and 
northerly about a mile and a half, where it falls into that 
part of Boston Harbour called Dorchester Bay. The 
body of water passing at Milton Bridge averages about 
35 feet. 



Manatticut River 

Hath its source in the town of Canton near the Ran- 
dolph line, and its course is easterly at the foot of the 
Blue Hills, touching the Braintree Great Pond and pass- 
ing through Braintree southerly of the Little Pond, 
where it receives a small stream from Randolph, ami 



Appendix. 149 

graduating round easterly and northerly to the Brain- 
tree Iron Works, and on to Braintree Bridge and Land- 
ing, up to which the tide flows, when it spreads Into a 
considerable width, casting off several creeks, passeth 
under Quincy Bridge and falls into Boston Harbour be- 
tween the towns of Quincy and Weymouth. 

The fresh water passing at Braintree Lower Meeting 
House is about 8 feet. 



Saugus River. 

The principal waters of this river are the outlets of 
Reading and Smith's Ponds in South Reading. From 
Reading Pond it runs N. E. about 2± miles, then it turns 
and runs S. E. about 3 miles where it is joined by the 
water from Smith's Pond, then it continueth a S. E. 
course through the town of Saugus, crossing the New- 
buryport Turnpike, the Old Road near Saugus Meeting 
House, the Old Boston and Salem Road, the Salem 
Turnpike and falling into Lynn Harbour between the 
towns of Lynn and Saugus, at a distance of about 8J 
miles in a direct line from its source. 

The tide flows about 3 miles up this river and the 
quantity of fresh water at its outlet is about 25 feet, 



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INDEX. 



Boston, length of the streets, &c. - 

length of the malls --'-,. 

length of the bridges, &c. - 

circuit round the common - 

circuit round the town ... 

a table shewing the rate per hour a person 

is moving by the time taken to pass 

through the Long Mall ... 
distance to taverns and other houses mostly 

frequented by parties 
to South Boston - 
description of 
Mill Dam, description of 
to Anger's Corner 

Bedford .... 

BemU's tavern in Waltham 

Beverly • 

Bilierica - 

Braintree West Meeting House 
Lower Meeting House 
over the Old Road 



Fagt 
6 

15 

17 

16 

17 



152» Index. 

Page 
Boston to Brighton through Cambridge Port - 53 

through Roxbury 54 

over the Mill Dam and New Road 53 

Brookline over the Worcester Turnpike 50 

over the Old Road 51 

Burlington through West Cambridge 74 

through Woburn 75 

Cambridge through Cambridge Port 29 

over Craigie's Road - 30 

Canton 117 

Charlestown ----- 34 

Chelsea - - - - - 28 

Cohasset through Hingham and the Lower 

Road 126 

through Hingham and by the Plains 127 

Concord over the Turnpike 69 

through Lexington - - 70 

through Waltham - - 71 

Danvers ------ 90 

Davenport's Store in Milton - - 115 

Dedham over the Turnpike - - 104 

through Jamaica Plains - 105 

through Do. and Spring Street 105 

Dorchester over South Boston Turnpike 45 

through Roxbury - - 45 

Upper Meeting House - 46 

Dover 110 

East Sudbury 63 

Hingham over the Turnpike - - 124 

through Braintree and over the 

Old Road - - - 124 

Hull 125 

Jamaica Plains - - - - 43 



Index. i 53 





Page 


Boston to Lexington - 


65 


Lincoln over the Concord Turnpike - 


68 


by the late Bird's Tavern and by 




Sherman's Hill 


67 


Lynn over the Turnpike - 


85 


over the Old Road - 


86 


Maiden - - - 


79 


Marblehead over the Northern Road 


96 


by Phillips's Point 


97 


Medfield over the Hartford Turnpike 


111 


over the Old Road 


112 


Medford over the Turnpike 


36 


through Charlestovvn and over 




Winter Hill 


86 


over Cragie's Bridge and Winter 




Hill - 


37 


Milton over the Brush Hill Turnpike 


115 


over South Boston Turnpike 


115 


Milton Bridge - 


47 


Nahant by land - 


88 


by water - 


88 


Natick through Newton * 


103 


over the Worcester Turnpike 


104 


Needham 


102 


Neponset Hotel - 


119 


Newton ------ 


98 


Lower Falls - 


98 


Upper Falls - 


102 


the Punch Bowl over the Mill Dam - 


43 


through Roxbury 


42 


Quincy over the Turnpike 


119 


through Dorchester and Milton 


119 


Randolph 


118 



154 Index. 

Pftgi 

Boston to Riehards's Tavern - - 51 

Reading 81 

Roxbury ------ 42 

Salem over the Turnpike 90 

over the Old Road - - 90 

Saugus ------ 84 

Shirley Point by land 28 

South Reading 82 

State Prison 34 

Stonefcam through Medford 80 

through Maiden - - 80 

Topsfield Hotel 83 

Walpole 113 

Walt ham Meeting House 59 

Waltham Plains ... 60 

Watertovvn through Old Cambridge - 55 

through Brighton 56 

West Cambridge through Old Cambridge 39 

over Middlesex Turnpike 89 

over Cragie's Bridge 40 

through Charlestown 40 

Weston through Waltham - - 62 

through Newton 63 

Weymouth through Quiney t» - 123 

Woburn ------ 75 

Bearings and distances from Boston - - 127 

from Cambridge - - 132 

Brookline,from Hon. T. H. Perkins's to Brighton 53 

Jamaica Plains 53 

Cambridge to Charlestovvn 32 

Medford 32 

Fresh Pond 34 

Brighton * - - 33 



OR- 



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Index. 155 

Page 

Cambridge to Angier's Corner S3 

Jamaica. Plains 33 

Concord to Bedford - 72 

Burlington - - ... 7s 
East Sudbury and Natick 73 

Lincoln ----- 72 
Nine Acre Corner 72 

Woburn 72 

Dedham to Canton ----- 109 

Dover ------ 107 

Milton Meeting House - - - 109 
Milton Bridge ... - 108 

Newton Lower Falls - - - ios 

Dorchester Lower Meeting House to South Boston 26 

Neponset 49 

Milton Bridge 49 

Upper Meeting House to Milton Bridge 50 

Four Corners to William Sumner's Mills 50 

Cornelius Coolidge, Esq. Seat to Boston 50 



Dover to Natick - - - 


- 


Ill 


Hingham to Queen Anne's Corner - 


- 


125 


Lincoln to Lexington - 


- 


63 


Lynn to Lynnfield Meeting House - 


- 


87 


Lynnfield Hotel - - - 


- 


87 


Medfield to Dover - 


- 


112 


Walpole - - - - 


- 


113 


Medford to Maiden - - - - 


- 


38 


West Cambridge - 


- 


38 


Newton, from Angier's Corner to the late Wood- 




bury's Tavern 


- 


100 



Rev. Mr. Homer's Meeting House to Brighton 101 
Richards's Tavern 101 
Ltwer Falls 102 



156 Index. 

Page 

Newton Lower Falls to Spring Street in Roxbury 101 

Salem to Marblehead 93 

Lynnfield Meeting House 93 

Lynnfield Hotel ... 95 

Medford - - - - - - 95 

Reading ------ 94 

South Reading 94 

Spring Pond Hotel 96 

South Reading to Reading 83 

Walpole to Dover ----- 114, 

Dedham - - - - 114 

Waltham to Newton ----- 63 

Watertown to West Cambridge 58 

Lincoln by Waltham Meeting House 58 

by late Deacon Brown's 59 

Weston to Lincoln 64 

Lexington 6! 

Woburn to* s Reading - - - - - 

Stoneham - - • - - <o 

South Reading 78 

Woburn, from Black Horse Tavern to Reading 78 

Stoneham 78 



ERRATA. 

Page 14 M le, for 899 read 650, for 2445 read 2196. 
P«e;e 7 i .. line, for Waltham Pond read Waldron Pond. 
■*agc Ci seventh line, for Hotel over the Turnpike read Hotel over the Old Road. 






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